Aleksandra

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Curious about how Meta & Google keep failing to stop fake medicine ads?

Join us tomorrow at 14:30 CET for a deep dive with @allxbo.bsky.social from @reset.tech on clickbait cures!

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Comment une agence de désinformation russe est parvenue à contourner la modération de Meta | TF1 INFO [VIDÉO] Un rapport de Checkfirst que l'équipe des Vérificateurs de TF1 a pu consulter montre comment les plateformes de Meta auraient reçu au moins 330.000 dollars grâce aux publicités d'une opération...

Merci @g.checkfirst.network pour cette analyse ô combien importante @checkfirst.network
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Einflussoperation enttarnt: Russland greift in deutschen Wahlkampf ein CORRECTIV hat rund 100 Fake-Nachrichtenseiten enttarnt. Ihr Zweck: die Bundestagswahl mit Desinformation beeinflussen.

Russland greift in den #Bundestagswahlkampf ein: Wir haben mehr als 100 Fake-Nachrichtenseiten der Einflusskampagne Storm-1516 aufgedeckt. In mehreren Fällen wurden sie bereits für Attacken auf Politiker genutzt. Was wir herausgefunden haben

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🗣️ "The goal of Operation Overload is to use you, the fact-checkers, to amplify their narrative."

Today our CTO Amaury was in Brussels for the inaugural #EFCSNConference. He spoke to the fact-checking community about Operation Overload ( 🔎 checkfirst.network/operation-ov...).

On and on and on and on it goes...

Kicking off our 2024 webinars!💥

🗓️ Tuesday 6 February
🕝 14:30 CET
💡 Off-Shor Disinformation: The pro-Russian Facebook ad campaign disrupting Moldova’s EU accession
🦸 Aleksandra Atanasova, RESET & @aa.disinfo.eu, EU DisinfoLab

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None of these people exist, but you can buy their books on Amazon anyway Once you find one author with an AI-generated face and potential AI-generated books, Amazon will helpfully direct you to more

None of these people exist, but you can buy their books on Amazon anyway. Here's an article on Amazon authors with GAN-generated faces and the books these authors publish (which appear to be almost entirely devoid of original human-created content).
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Blue checks, ads, and crypto spam Verified accounts on social media platform X are running paid ads for cryptocurrency/NFT projects of dubious legitimacy

Cryptocurrency/NFT spam from blue check accounts has become a recurring theme of advertising on X/Twitter in recent months. I kept track of the crypto spam ads I was served over the course of two days and did some analysis of the accounts involved.
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Slew of deepfake video adverts of Sunak on Facebook raises alarm over AI risk to election Research finds more than 100 paid ads impersonating PM were promoted on social media platform in last month

Over 100 deep-fake ads of UK PM Rishi Sunak discovered on Meta's platform... Sounds familiar no? We released the Facebook Hustles investigation 6 months ago already 🫠

Die Reaktionen der AfD-Fans auf die Enthüllungen der AfD-Geheimpläne, auch deutsche Bürger millionenfach zu deportieren, sind entlarvend.

Einige leugnen alles & schimpfen auf Staat & Medien

Andere bestätigen es komplett und sehnen sich danach.

Viele schaffen es sogar, beides gleichzeitig zu tun.

In 1964, Bill McGuire wrote a seminal chapter on inoculation theory. Now, 60 years later I had the honor to write another.

Here's everything we've found & have to say about inoculation against misinformation, including recent critiques & my response!

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Как Путин разрушил современный международный порядок С 2014 года Москва, несмотря на свой относительный провал в Украине, меняет мир в интересах российского и нерос�...

Своей войной против Украины Россия пошатнула не только либеральный мировой порядок, но и общую международную систему.

@pravda.ua @sceeus-ui.bsky.social

@moscowtimes.bsky.social @russlandwatcher.de @lugeration.bsky.social @dgoberlin.bsky.social @rvps2001.bsky.social @russianforces.org

En Moldavie, une campagne d’ingérence prorusse de grande ampleur sur Facebook Cette opération d’influence au budget important, révélée par l’ONG Reset, a notamment mis en avant des candidats prorusses lors d’élections locales, en novembre, et diffusé des messages à...

Stealthily (yet kind of predictably), US/EU-sanctioned Moldovan oligarch Ilan Shor splurged some 200,000 - 280,000 EUR on a political campaign on Meta delivered via a network of fake pages. @lemonde.fr @flrnd.bsky.social has the details: www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...

Leak: Leugnung des Holocaust und mehr darf auf X/Twitter nicht gelöscht werden Interne Handbücher belegen, was offensichtlich ist: Eine irische Zeitung hat herausgefunden, welche Inhalte bei X/Twitter nicht mehr gelöscht werden müssen.

Interne Handbücher belegen, was offensichtlich ist: Eine irische Zeitung hat herausgefunden, welche Inhalte bei X/Twitter nicht mehr gelöscht werden müssen.

Ukraine war: How TikTok fakes pushed Russian lies to millions The BBC uncovers a vast Russia-based network of fake TikTok accounts pushing disinformation about Ukraine.

A vast, covert Russian influence operation on TikTok involving 12,800 fake accounts spreading disinformation about the war in Ukraine to millions of users in Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Israel and Ukraine, has been uncovered by BBC Verify and @dfrlab.bsky.social.

Viginum recrute son/sa documentaliste/chargé.e de capitalisation.
Les anglais disent "knowledge manager", mais nous, on aime bien la langue française.

Derrière l’influence numérique russe, un système de sous-traitance généralisée Interviews de personnalités françaises commandées depuis Moscou, entreprises privées russes et réseaux de bots achetés sur le marché noir… Les campagnes d’ingérence en ligne entretiennent ...

Interviews de personnalités françaises commandées depuis Moscou, entreprises privées russes et réseaux de bots achetés sur le marché noir… Les campagnes d’ingérence en ligne entretiennent un flou artistique autour de leurs commanditaires.

Via @plntn.bsky.social

Amazon’s Risky Recommendations - CheckFirst In a landmark research collaboration, CheckFirst and AI Forensics publish a comprehensive study examining the intricate facets of Amazon's recommendation algorithm, unveiling concerning content amplif...

✨📚 CheckFirst and AI Forensics present an eye-opening study, "The Amazing Library".

We expose the harms of Amazon's algorithms, spanning from promoting anti-vaccine content to suggesting sexually explicit books on teenager books’ pages.
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Dans la librairie d’Amazon, « les algorithmes façonnent les ventes, mais aussi le discours publ... Dans une étude parue lundi, AI Forensics et Check First mettent en lumière la façon dont Amazon surexpose des ouvrages trompeurs ou controversés dans ses rayons en lignes.

When Amazon book stores recommended anti-vaccination, harmful content and let users access pornographic content without control. Our latest study together with @aiforensics.bsky.social is up (and Le Monde read it) www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...

non, reste ici, c'est fou interessant hah. mais j'ai aucune intuition pour les quiz :D

A Kremlin-Linked Network Used Fake Taylor Swift Quotes to Push Anti-Ukraine Propaganda A disinformation campaign led by a group linked to Russia's GRU is using images of celebrities like Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Kim Kardashian, Justin Bieber, and Oprah to lambast Ukraine.

The celebrity quote campaign that Reset exposed last month continues to run unhinged on Facebook with a slight change of tactics. The ads now literally put words in famous people's mouths by promoting footage of actual interviews w/ fake audio dubbed on top via text-to-speech apps.

Those tactics appear to be working to outmanoeuvre Meta’s detection capabilities: some ads reached tens and even hundreds of thousands of users before being removed. 30% of the identified advertisers (172 pages) have not been deplatformed and their ads continue to run without removal to this day

In comparison to other campaigns where individual advertisers launch multiple ads, each quote card meme was launched by a SINGLE page, after which the page stopped advertising altogether. This could be a complementary tactic to reduce the traceability of the assets involved in the campaign.

To mislead the platform’s automated systems for content moderation, the quotes were placed directly on the visuals and the ads featured no copy or external links.

Some used outright keyword obfuscation tactics: one ad replaced the word “Zelensky” with “Ze-nsky” to avoid automated keyword detection.

The ads exploit loopholes in Meta’s ad verification and content moderation systems. We noticed a change of tactics used by the advertisers to make the campaign less detectable by Meta’s algorithms.

While we have not been able to attribute the campaign to a specific actor, similar massive networks of advertisers have run political advertising connected with Doppelganger/RRN operation before. The total scope of the two discovered networks includes +70,000 pages.

Reset identified 552 ads targeting 7.6 million users in Germany and France between 6-17 November. Anonymous pages belonging to two massive automatically created networks have been involved in the promotion of these ads.

This overtly political campaign crafts absurd quote cards putting all sorts of crazy statements in the mouths of big-shot US celebs, incl. Shakira, Lady Gaga, Selena Gomez, Oprah Winfrey, Jennifer Lopez and + 20 more.

No more red-carpet treatment for Ukrainians! Apparently Hollywood hates them now, according to a naively conceptualised but heavily sponsored Facebook campaign.

Reset discovered some fun facts about the advertisers 🧵

Comment la Russie étend son emprise sur la Géorgie Depuis l’invasion de l’Ukraine, Moscou, soutenu par le gouvernement prorusse de Tbilissi, recourt à tous les moyens pour empêcher cette autre ex-république soviétique de se rapprocher de l’U...

Featuring comments by yours truly on Russia's increasing influence in Georgia.
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