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The article discusses how AI is used in bot farms to create fake social media accounts that generate hyper-realistic comments and viral posts, potentially influencing online debates.
The article discusses the prevalence of bot farms from China, Iran, Pakistan, and Russia on social media platforms like X, and how they manipulate public opinion and policy discussions.
The article compares Big Tech's manipulation tactics to those of Big Tobacco and Big Food, emphasizing the need for systemic regulation beyond individual scandals.
MIT Technology Review's newsletter highlights the selection process for its 2026 Innovators Under 35 list, an investigation into the 'censorship-industrial complex' influencing US policy, and Montana's push to become an experimental medical hub.
A deep-dive on how the 'censorship-industrial complex' narrative moved from the right-wing fringe to mainstream US policy, affecting the internet and global information ecosystems.
An investigation into how conspiracy theories about a 'censorship-industrial complex' moved from the online fringe to Trump administration policy, culminating in the shutdown of government disinformation-tracking units like the State Department's R/FIMI hub.
Introduces LENS, a contextualization-based evaluation protocol for testing narrative unlearning in large language models, evaluating suppression across direct, attributed, contrastive, and abstract levels.
Israel reportedly paid Brad Parscale over $45 million for an AI-driven influence operation that sends millions of Americans texts and creates web content aimed at shaping how chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude answer questions about Israel, marking the first well-documented instance of a state-scale actor targeting AI responses through coordinated content.
A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration's policy to revoke visas and deport non-US citizens working in content moderation, ruling that the policy was overly broad and lacked clear justification.
This paper proposes a graph-based framework that combines weak supervision with propagation graph analysis to detect and analyze disinformation narratives in Telegram ecosystems, focusing on Russian and Ukrainian channels.
Flock Safety denies sending a cease-and-desist letter to a lecture series; the letter appears forged, sparking debate about surveillance.
Leaked documents reveal Russia's Project 2026, run by the Social Design Agency, to create fake reference platforms like a German Wikipedia clone to contaminate AI training data and search indices, aiming to embed Russian narratives into AI responses.
A viral claim that the AI model Mythos hacked NSA classified systems in hours is disputed as disinformation, with the original source walking back the statement.
The article reports that a white supremacist youth group helped orchestrate the Belfast riots following a knife attack, with far-right figures like Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk amplifying the incident on X, leading to violent protests.
OpenAI reports two clusters of ChatGPT accounts likely originating from China that were used in covert influence operations targeting US AI debates, including narratives about data center energy costs and tariffs.
A CBC investigation reveals that overseas accounts are posing as Albertans and posting divisive content in Alberta separatist Facebook groups to exploit Meta's monetization program, often by stealing content from real users.
Tech researchers are suing the Trump administration over a visa restriction policy they argue is unconstitutional and chills online safety research. The case, brought by the Coalition for Independent Technology Research, could have global repercussions for free speech and online moderation.
OpenAI researchers analyze how language models could be misused for disinformation campaigns and influence operations, proposing mitigation strategies across four stages of the attack pipeline: model existence, access, content dissemination, and user impact.