DisinfoDocket

CVE at a Crossroads: A Blueprint for the Next 25 Years The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program is a critical public good, yet it is at a crossroads. Established by MITRE with support from the U.S. government, the index of software vulnerabi...

🚨 NEW from IST: The CVE Program is at a crossroads. Recent funding issues have exposed key challenges, and without action, the vulnerability identification landscape will fragment. Today’s report provides recs for global policymakers to reimagine the CVE Program for the next 25 years.
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What our first measurement says about disinformation on major platforms in Europe - Science Feedback Science Feedback and partners have released a first measurement of Structural Indicators across six Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) in four EU member states (France, Spain, Poland, Slovakia). Belo...

🚨 New report out: the first cross-platform, cross-country baseline on misinformation in Europe

Based on large scale data analysis: ~2.6M posts (24B views) collected on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X & YouTube

science.feedback.org/first-measurement-disinformation-major-platforms-europe

YouTube video by freeCodeCamp.org Godot Game Development for Beginners

Teens love to build video games, and doing so can teach them critical computer science and cybersecurity skills. Check out a new video by teen developers from @hackclub www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiPk...

Senior Russian officials encourage Americans to blame leftists and Ukraine supporters for conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s murder — Meduza In the aftermath of American conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s murder, two of Russia’s most prominent public officials have weighed in on social media. On Wednesday afternoon, Kirill Dmitriev and D...

Just a reminder that Russia doesn't care if you are on the left or the right of any issue. They only care that you are an American.

"Senior Russian officials encourage Americans to blame leftists and Ukraine supporters for conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s murder" meduza.io/en/feature/2...

What happened today is awful. People who fight against gun violence, people who loathe what Charlie Kirk stood for, must also condemn political violence. It’s a vicious cycle. This is a very dangerous moment.

Inside one town's efforts to prevent cyberattacks at water treatment plant NPR gets an inside look at how one small Vermont town is protecting its water plant from hackers.

“I’m the only door between the Iranians and our water system.”

Powerful reporting by @npr.org @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social on how Franklin - and volunteer Tim Pappa - are stepping in to help water operators defend against foreign cyber threats. #CyberCivilDefense #Take9

www.npr.org/2025/09/08/n...

Civilization Works 990: 2024, $1.6M 2024, $841K 2022, $559K

Since Michael Shellenberger namechecked me in his latest fundraising appeal for his "Civilization Works" grift, I pulled up his 990. Last year, he pulled in $1.6 million to fight the censorship complex that *he made up* -- double what he got the year before.

These scam artists are raking it in.

Attempted espionage: Soldier admits trying to give maps, numbers, passcodes to foreign country The soldier met with an undercover officer and handed over sensitive information.

"A soldier with links to several far-right groups has admitted trying to pass on critical and classified information about New Zealand Defence Force bases to what he thought was a foreign agent, but was actually an undercover officer." www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/soldier-a...

Think You’ve Been Scammed? AI Is Making It Harder to Tell – Here’s What to Do | The AI Journal I came down from my home office to hear our family’s nanny, “Trina,” on the phone in distress. “I think I’ve been scammed online,” Trina told me. “What should

“In a world where scams are becoming harder to identify, it’s valuable to know how to quickly respond to a potential fraud,” says @aspenpolicyacademy.bsky.social director @betsycooper.bsky.social‬ in an AI Journal op-ed. Read here for tips on navigating cyber risks👇: aijourn.com/think-youve-...

Bones of contention: Facebook commentary in Sinhala on the Chemmani mass grave excavations This brief study examines 4,200+ Sinhalese comments published in response to eleven Facebook posts posted between mid-July and August 2025, analysing the construction of competing narratives around…

Bones of contention: Facebook commentary in Sinhala on the Chemmani mass grave excavations

Study of 4.2k+ Sinhala comments against 11 Facebook posts published between mid-July-Aug.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/bones-... (LinkedIn)

sanjanah.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/b... (WordPress)

#SriLanka #WarCrimes

New Report Finds Post-Election Audits in Most Swing States Provide Scant Evidence to Confirm Election Outcomes - Free Speech For People A new report on post-election audits conducted in 2024 in seven swing states finds that in most states the audits are insufficient.

BREAKING: New Report Finds Post-Election Audits in Most Swing States Provide Scant Evidence to Confirm Election Outcomes. READ MORE: freespeechforpeople.org/new-report-f...

New in TiCS w @dgrand.bsky.social @gordpennycook.bsky.social

It’s been ~10yrs since misinfo research exploded but our paradigms are stuck in the post-2016 “fake news” model

Time for new approaches:
o True/False → Content that misleads
o Belief → Behavior
o Eval interventions in ambiguous settings

Tech giants blocking some Ukraine and Gaza posts under new online rules Tech companies are restricting debates of public interest to comply the Online Safety Act, analysis shows.

A wide range of public interest content, including posts about the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine and parliamentary debates on grooming gangs, is now being blocked for UK online users by social media companies trying to comply with the Online Safety Act.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Man who says elections (that don’t go his way) are “rigged” also claims economic numbers (that aren’t going his way) are “faked”. Who’d’ve thunk it?

Analysis | The Fact Checker rose in an era of false claims. Falsehoods are now winning. Longtime Fact Checker Glenn Kessler takes stock as he departs The Washington Post.

"Meta, which after 2016 spent more than $100 million to fund 100 fact-checking organizations, ended a partnership with U.S. fact-checkers."

Many thoughts but one is that Meta should be paying Community Notes contributors. It's absurd to contribute for free.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Anthropic AI Safety Fellow, US Remote-Friendly (Travel Required) | San Francisco, CA

Gig alert: AI Safety research fellow role at Anthropic — remote, possibly good opportunity for new college graduate

job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jo...

🚨 New preprint alert:

We show that web-browsing GPT and LLaMA models can infer social media user demographics with reasonable accuracy—using only usernames.

This opens new possibilities for social media research in the post-API era but raises important privacy concerns.

New Reports on Russian Interference Don’t Show What Trump Says They Do

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...

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Institute for Security and Technology Announces Renewed Support from Craig Newmark Philanthropies to Advance the Future of Digital Security The Institute for Security and Technology (IST) is excited to announce renewed support from Craig Newmark Philanthropies for our efforts to carry out a multi-pronged approach to protect, empower, and ...

Cyber threats increasingly come in all shapes and sizes, and too often, the targets of these attacks are under-prepared and under-resourced. IST is excited to announce renewed support from Craig Newmark Philanthropies for our efforts to advance the future of digital security.
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PEN America Acquires OnlineSOS, Expanding Commitment to Digital Safety and Free Expression - PEN America PEN America acquires assets of OnlineSOS a pioneering nonprofit dedicated to supporting people who are harassed online.

As the organization prepares to sunset in 2025, PEN America is thrilled to integrate its invaluable resources into our digital safety programming to ensure they remain accessible to those who need them most. Read the full announcement here: pen.org/press-releas... (3/3)

Here’s a summer steal for you - Amazon has “The Information Animal” ebook on sale for $15 and the best part is, you can read it now. I want to make all sorts of jokes about this being the key to becoming a best seller, but I hear @katelynnvogt.bsky.social telling me to knock it off : a.co/d/1icgFjU

Networks, not hierarchies. Participation — memes, responsiveness, engagement…

One party gets it, while the power center of the other just doesn’t.

The website released to address the chemtrail and geoengineering theories is solid and confirms the science, per scientists who reviewed it.

Let’s see what the response is like…

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/c...

I wrote a similar response to a similar argument in a libertarian law pub —just came out!

The arguments are well-trod by this point; my essay responds to a specific provocation.

Look: the structures for discourse are different now. Sensemaking changed. So: we adapt.

lawliberty.org/content-mode...

Scam ads are all over Meta’s platforms, but now there’s a way to catch them. Try our new @polidashboard semantic search feature, which is perfect for finding scam ads fast.

Visit: PoliDashboard.org and see what you can find.

Join 92NY for a Newmark Civic Life Series event exploring how today’s movement for reproductive justice is operating against the backdrop of rising authoritarianism and the weaponization of federal funding. Attend online 6/25 7 PM ET www.92ny.org/event/fighti...

I looked at this book to see how they covered a topic I know well: the "censorship" narrative. I have a chapter in my own 📖 that tried to discuss that issue w/detail, facts, & nuance.

"In Covid's Wake" chose to talk up Bhattacharya's fantasies of being censored and hide the truth in the footnotes.

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🚨In PNAS🚨
The right often accuses fact-checkers of political bias
But we analyzed Community Notes on Musk's X and found posts flagged as "misleading" are 2.3x more likely to be written by Reps than Dems!
The issue is Reps sharing misinformation, not fact-checker bias...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...