International Business Times: US Adversaries Fuel Disinformation About LA Protests. “Russia, China and Iran are amplifying disinformation about protests over immigration raids in Los Angeles, researchers said Friday, adding to a surge of domestically generated falsehoods and conspiracy theories.” No Kings TV shows protest coverage from verified local media in 20 US metro areas. Free, no ads.
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University of Exeter: Russia using museums for ideological indoctrination about the Ukraine invasion, study shows. “Russian leaders have increasingly used museums and their digital collections to show propaganda about Slavic unity and deny Ukrainian identity since the 2022 invasion, analysis shows. The research shows the increasing ideological indoctrination of Russian museums and digital […]
NBC News: Russia is amplifying conspiracy theories about the L.A. protests. “Protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles have triggered a flood of falsehoods and conspiracy theories online, and Russia has sought to exploit and amplify them, experts say. Russian media and pro-Russian voices have embraced right-wing conspiracy theories about the protests, including one that alleged the […]
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RBC-Ukraine: Russia plans fresh propaganda assault on Ukraine and allies, report warns. “Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation warns that Russia will intensify information and psychological operations in late June. The Kremlin’s propaganda will focus on several topics at once: discrediting the Ukrainian delegation at the talks in Istanbul, attempts to demonize the Armed Forces, […]
ZoIS: Teachers under Russian Occupation: Education as a Front Line and Tool of Cultural Genocide. “The war in Ukraine is characterised not only by the seizure of territory or an attempt to change the country’s government, but also by a distinct form of violence often absent in interstate conflicts: the forced transformation of identity. To legitimise its annexation of territory, Russia […]
NPR: OpenAI takes down covert operations tied to China and other countries. “Chinese propagandists are using ChatGPT to write posts and comments on social media sites — and also to create performance reviews detailing that work for their bosses, according to OpenAI researchers.”
Radio Bulgaria English Service: Minister Georg Georgiev: Russia is conducting propaganda and hybrid actions against so-called unfriendly states, including Bulgaria. “Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian military aggression against Ukraine, more than 30,000 Bulgarians, mainly from the Zaporizhzhia region, have been living under temporary Russian occupation, Foreign Minister Georg […]
Related: "The Department of Justice in December found that Russia was paying several rightwing influencers who repeated many of the false claims—and members of the Trump administration, including President Trump himself, have repeated them as well. That has blurred the line between foreign information warfare and legitimate political speech, which, of course, is exactly what such campaigns are designed to do.
“We’ve allowed this transition where now the identification of misinformation is censorship,” the congressional staffer said.
What are the implications of this shift? A poll out this week from journalist watchdog group NewsGuard and survey company YouGov found that almost a third of Americans now believe at least one false claim directly attributed to Russian state media outlets."
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Eurogamer: “Official” Russian Military game depicting invasion of Ukraine released on Steam as Yunarmy propaganda. “A new game was released yesterday on Steam depicting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, claiming to be ‘officially recommended by the Russian Military’. The free-to-play Squad 22: ZOV is a tactical shooter from developer SPN Studio and publisher Zarobana Entertainment and is the only […]
The Register: US to deny visas to foreign officials it says ‘censor’ social media . “The US government says it’ll refuse visas to foreign officials judged to have censored social media posts of American citizens – a move aimed at countries trying to stem the flow of online misinformation.”
The Conversation: Weaponized storytelling: How AI is helping researchers sniff out disinformation campaigns. “At the Cognition, Narrative and Culture Lab at Florida International University, we are building AI tools to help detect disinformation campaigns that employ tools of narrative persuasion. We are training AI to go beyond surface-level language analysis to understand narrative […]
Kyiv Post: Charlie Hebdo Hits Back Over Pro-Russian Fakes Mocking Zelensky. “French weekly Charlie Hebdo said on Monday it had gone to court over fake covers of the satirical magazine, in an effort to defend its image and identify the authors of the apparently pro-Russian ‘propaganda’. .. .Covers purporting to represent the popular French publication and mocking Ukrainian President Volodymyr […]
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Espreso: Spain blames Russia for disinformation campaign following 2024 Valencia floods. “Spain has officially confirmed for the first time that Russia was behind a wave of disinformation and divisive messaging that spread online following the devastating floods in Valencia in the fall of 2024. As reported by El País, the revelation comes from Spain’s annual national security report, […]
Polskie Radio: Ukrainian intelligence says Russia running “Doppelganger” disinformation campaign to sway Polish election. ” Ukraine’s military intelligence service (HUR) said on Sunday that Russian spy agencies have intensified a long-running online operation dubbed ‘Doppelganger’ to spread fake news across the EU and NATO, with Poland a prime target ahead of its presidential vote.”
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