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US anti-disinformation guardrails fall in Trump’s first 100 days

Politics, Society, Technology, Uncategorized

May 5, 2025 From slashed federal funding for disinformation research to the closure of a key agency combating foreign influence operations, the United States has dismantled vital guardrails against falsehoods within President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office. The moves could have national security implications, experts warn, granting US adversaries such as Russia and […]

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Hijacking news: Fake media sites sow Ukraine disinformation

Politics, Technology, Ukraine, Uncategorized

April 23, 2025 A fake news website falsely claimed that Ukraine’s president is paying Western reporters to tarnish US President Donald Trump — part of a series of deceptive reports spread by Russian-linked portals mimicking media outlets. The disinformation tactic, amid heightened international efforts to halt the three-year war with Russia, seeks to undermine both

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Fact check Malta: Labour Party supporters use AI to turn civil society protest into a partisan battle

Fact Check, Politics, Society, Technology, Uncategorized

April 14, 2025  Supporters of Malta’s Labour Party are sharing photorealistic AI-generated images in partisan Facebook groups that attempt to portray opposition leader Bernard Grech at a civil society protest in the capital city of  Valletta. A protest was held by a number of local NGOs on 2nd April 2025 outside the parliament building in

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Russian disinformation ‘infects’ AI chatbots, researchers warn

Politics, Technology, Ukraine

March 13, 2025 A sprawling Russian disinformation network is manipulating Western AI chatbots to spew pro-Kremlin propaganda, researchers say, at a time when the United States is reported to have paused its cyber operations against Moscow. The Pravda network, a well-resourced Moscow-based operation to spread pro-Russian narratives globally, is said to be distorting the output

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Fact-check Malta: Fishing for attention – AI-generated videos making waves

Fact Check, Society, Technology

March 10, 2025 AI-generated videos are filling social media feeds, and they are looking increasingly real, even if logic suggests otherwise. Take this video, for example, which is currently doing the rounds on Instagram. It appears to show a team of fishermen out at sea hauling a mammoth oyster onto their boat. They proceed to

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Meta profits from known pro-Russian disinfo network: researchers

Politics, Society, Technology

January 28, 2025 Social media giant Meta made hundreds of thousands of dollars last year from content posted by a well-known pro-Russian disinformation network, researchers have claimed. Tens of thousands of Facebook users in France, Germany, Poland and Italy were targeted with cartoons mocking French politicians, messages hostile to European aid to Ukraine and other

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‘Form of violence’: Across globe, deepfake porn targets women politicians

Editors Pick, Politics, Society, Technology, Uncategorized

January 15, 2025 From the United States to Italy, Britain, and Pakistan, female politicians are increasingly becoming victims of AI-generated deepfake pornography or sexualized images, in a troubling trend that researchers say threatens women’s participation in public life. An online boom in non-consensual deepfakes is outpacing efforts to regulate the technology globally, experts say, with

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