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Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier

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Doctor Doctor Give Me The Fake News: AI-Powered Medic From Ohio Tweeting Propaganda About Sudan, Israel and European Migration How a verified fake doctor on X spread AI-generated propaganda about Gaza and Sudan

Another new post! Doctor Doctor Give Me The Fake News: AI-Powered Medic From Ohio Tweeting Propaganda About Sudan, Israel and European Migration
How a verified fake doctor on X spread AI-generated propaganda about Gaza and Sudan marcowenjones.substack.com/p/doctor-doc... #Disinformation

06.10.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Taking a look at this from @marcowenjones.bsky.social on Sudan's social media and AI.

06.10.2025 10:39 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

anti muslim-'brotherhood'...

06.10.2025 10:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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New investigation. "Nobody Talks Like This: Meet 50 AI-Powered Propaganda Accounts in Sudan's Social Media War"

How 50 AI-generated accounts are flooding Twitter with pro-UAE and anti-Muslim (Brotherhood) propaganda on Sudan's civil war

marcowenjones.substack.com/p/nobody-tal... #disinformation

06.10.2025 10:38 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Part of your information landscape is very likely fake and designed to influence you. Read @marcowenjones.bsky.social 's investigations to begin grasping the extent. marcowenjones.substack.com/p/nobody-tal...

06.10.2025 10:36 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Fascinating insights on Israel’s influence operations in the US, costing millions. Particularly striking is how the contracts openly talk about the usage of bots to β€œflood the zone”

06.10.2025 09:48 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Summary of some of the government of Israel's $8 million spend in the US in the past few months to serve propaganda to gen Z, manipulate AI, co-copt influencers, and flood the zone with bots open.substack.com/pub/marcowen...

06.10.2025 06:34 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

I want to hear where Van Jones gets his 'evidence' that Iran and Qatar are running a "disinformation campaign" about dead Gaza babies? If you're gonna make such big claims as a journalist you'd better bring receipts.

06.10.2025 06:30 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

he deleted it

15.09.2025 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I know it's not the point but it doesn't even look like the Admiralty Arch or Marble Arch for that matter. The fact there's wasn't even a March in that semi fictional area is the icing on the cake

15.09.2025 11:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Musk sharing an AI generated image of the Arc de Triomphe with loads of England and Union flags thinking it's London is peak information disorder.

14.09.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 359    πŸ” 99    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 15
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Genuinely sick

10.09.2025 12:59 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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America's "warning" to Qatar

09.09.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Look what's in close proximity to Israel's illegal attack on Doha, at least 2 nurseries, 3 schools, 6 embassies, a petrol station, a public park. This all happened in the middle of the afternoon, when schools are ending and children engaging in extra curricular activities

09.09.2025 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
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Rawabet Conference Series

Super excited for this week's Rawabet conference at @nuqatar.bsky.social : Shaping The AI-Empowered Future of Knowledge, Scholarship, and Creativity.

I'll be presenting on AI Sloperations and Slopaganda!

Sept 1-2 Program > www.qatar.northwestern.edu/special-even...

30.08.2025 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rawabet Conference Series

Super excited for this week's Rawabet conference at @nuqatar.bsky.social : Shaping The AI-Empowered Future of Knowledge, Scholarship, and Creativity.

I'll be presenting on AI Sloperations and Slopaganda!

Sept 1-2 Program > www.qatar.northwestern.edu/special-even...

30.08.2025 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

3/3 Once again Big Tech showing their willingness to take money in exchange for pro-genocidal propaganda.

22.08.2025 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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2/3 This is a link to one of the ads, trying to say that there is plenty of food in Gaza. Their recent campaign has focused on blaming the UN for not delivering enough food. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKB0...

22.08.2025 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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1/3 Google and X are accepting thousands of dollars to run Youtube ads by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs that are whitewashing famine in Gaza. Between May and July alone they spent >$138 k targeting Germany alone. #GazaGenocide

22.08.2025 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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Ahhh so it's not genocide if it takes longer than an afternoon?

Why is Netanyahu engaging in Holocaust denial now?

21.08.2025 06:26 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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August 2024, "Rafah is the last Hamas stronghold"
August 2025, "Gaza City is the last Hamas stronghold"

It's almost like Israel are using Hamas as an excuse to occupy Gaza... #GazaGenocide

20.08.2025 07:14 β€” πŸ‘ 198    πŸ” 76    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 4

you don't demand action on Palestine?

18.08.2025 08:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

UK right now.

Do you support taking action to end Israel's genocide?

YesπŸ‘Œ

Do you support taking action to end genocide of Palestinians?

YesπŸ‘Œ

So you support taking some sort of action on Palestine?

YesπŸ‘Œ

So what you're saying is you support Palestine action?

Jail

18.08.2025 08:21 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 2
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Secret Service 'did not check' Cotswolds social media details The Secret Service has not been asking for social media details of Cotswolds residents.

"Sources close to the United States Secret Service has joined Thames Valley Police in denying asking for residents’ social media.

The source said: "The US Secret Service did not collect social media information from any UK residents.”" www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2539089...

15.08.2025 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Fascist aesthetic

15.08.2025 06:17 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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George Osborne arranged Cotswolds holiday for JD Vance Ex-chancellor helped source accommodation and devise itinerary for US vice-president

Look who arranged Shady Vance's holiday?

Now George Osborne is a travel agent too πŸ™„

www.ft.com/content/64df...

13.08.2025 11:42 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2
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Thames Valley Police refuse to say who is paying for JD Vance's trip Thames Valley Police has refused to say who is paying for policing during JD Vance's Cotswolds trip.

So let's get this straight. *Someone*, possibly a well-resourced individual or entity is paying for JD Vance's private holiday to the UK, while the taxpayer is having to foot the bill for his personal security, which also involves invasions of privacy uk.news.yahoo.com/thames-valle...

13.08.2025 09:49 β€” πŸ‘ 90    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 6

Who the heck do they think they are??

13.08.2025 05:00 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Don't tell 'em!

Or just call yourself Spartacus.

13.08.2025 05:59 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The police are asking local Cotswolds residents for their social media handles to be passed onto to JD Vance's security detail. Glad to hear some people refused. Honestly the nerve of it, especially for the man who criticised Europe for censorship
uk.news.yahoo.com/helicopters-...

12.08.2025 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 10

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