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https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/14/a-democratic-legislator-was-assassinated-right-wing-influencers-coughed-out-disinformation/

It’s especially frustrating because there •is• election manipulation happening in plain sight: voter suppression, gerrymandering, a vast media empire of right-wing falsehood, microtargeted disinformation from billionaires and hostile foreign states alike, GOP- and Putin-backed grifters posing as left-leaning third party candidates and then just pocketing the donations and disappearing —
•none• of that even in doubt. We do not need to search for a shadowy conspiracy. Democracy’s being strangled in broad daylight.
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RFK Sent Congress "Willful Medical Disinformation" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/rfk-sent-congress-willful-medical-disinformation/

AI Chatbots Are Making LA Protest Disinformation Worse (David Gilbert/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/grok-chatgpt-ai-los-angeles-protest-disinformation/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p19#a250611p19

I can’t quite decide whether you’re a troll, a bot, or simply dim. https://gotosocial.social/@oceane/statuses/01JXMV509DBD2BMFWVXJAVJHP0

Post by Les antibiotiques causent l’autisme, vaccinez-vous, @oceane@gotosocial.social
@aral@mastodon.ar.al Please do not share opinions as if they were facts. That’s disinformation.

Weaponized Storytelling: How AI Is Helping Researchers Sniff Out Disinformation Campaigns (The Conversation, 28 May 2025)
https://theconversation.com/weaponized-storytelling-how-ai-is-helping-researchers-sniff-out-disinf…

Weaponized storytelling: How AI is helping researchers sniff out disinformation campaigns
Disinformation campaigns are using AI to tell false but compelling stories. AI tools are also helping counter the campaigns by detecting incongruities in usernames, cultural references and timelines.

Welp I got suspended from Nexdoor for responding to the obvious maga disinformation about No Kings.. Noticed since I still can log in as my other account they did not take down the ones I responded to saying we were being paid to be there and lots of us were going to dress as the other side and make them look like fools per some politician named luna. From a website I would normally not link to but is where most on X facebook and apparently nextdoor are getting their news.

Luna Warns 'Leftists' in MAGA Gear May Disrupt No King's Protests
Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna issued a warning to the public on Friday, claiming that leftist agitators posing in "MAGA gear" are looking to intentionally s

“We’re in a moment when the moral forces of the world and religious forces of the world have a deep responsibility to say it doesn’t have to be this way.”
—The Divinity School's William Barber in today's NY Times speaking about the wars, polarization, inequality, disinformation, and other challenges #PopeLeo must contend with as he begins his papacy

For Catholics, the Pope Is a Holy Father. For the World, He Is a Powerful Voice
The papacy is a global platform, so the issues Pope Leo chooses to focus on can resonate far beyond the church.

As things stand now, the only way to be (almost) certain something is legitimate is if you find it in the site and/or official account of the alledged maker of it. Otherwise, it's safer to assume it's fake.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/06

Euronews targeted by anti-Moldova disinformation campaign
Pro-Russian actors have repeatedly used Euronews' likeness and visual identity in recent weeks to spread propaganda against various European countries. #EuroVerify

RFK Jr. sent Congress 'medical disinformation' to defend COVID vaccine schedule change (Jackie Fortiér/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/13/nx-s1-5431935/rfk-hhs-covid-vaccine-schedule-faq
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p32#a250613p32

OpenAI takes down ChatGPT accounts linked to state-backed hacking, disinformation https://therecord.media/openai-takes-down-chatgpt-accounts-hacking

Dataset of News Articles with Provenance Metadata for Media Relevance Assessment
Tomas Peterka, Matyas Bohacek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09847 https://

Dataset of News Articles with Provenance Metadata for Media Relevance Assessment
Out-of-context and misattributed imagery is the leading form of media manipulation in today's misinformation and disinformation landscape. The existing methods attempting to detect this practice often only consider whether the semantics of the imagery corresponds to the text narrative, missing manipulation so long as the depicted objects or scenes somewhat correspond to the narrative at hand. To tackle this, we introduce News Media Provenance Dataset, a dataset of news articles with provenance-…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03988 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_…

RAID: A Dataset for Testing the Adversarial Robustness of AI-Generated Image Detectors
AI-generated images have reached a quality level at which humans are incapable of reliably distinguishing them from real images. To counteract the inherent risk of fraud and disinformation, the detection of AI-generated images is a pressing challenge and an active research topic. While many of the presented methods claim to achieve high detection accuracy, they are usually evaluated under idealized conditions. In particular, the adversarial robustness is often neglected, potentially due to a la…

The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America's UFO Mythology (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/ufo-us-disinformation-45376f7e?st=kEAaJz&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p160#a250606p160

Wow, this is a first. A site I actually want to see (archive.ph) is using an IP address on the @… DROP list.
(no, I do NOT think that’s a Spamhaus problem. They are doing their job.) https://

A look at Russian GRU Unit 29155's hacking department, which started out in 2012, and its involvement in cyber warfare and disinformation campaigns (The Insider)
https://theins.press/en/inv/281731

Hidden Bear: The GRU hackers of Russia’s most notorious kill squad
Russian GRU Unit 29155 is best known for its long list of murder and sabotage ops, which include the Salisbury poisonings in England, arms depot explosions in Czechia, and an attempted coup d’etat in Montenegro. But its activities in cyberspace remained in the shadows — until now. After reviewing a trove of hidden data, The Insider can report that the Kremlin’s most notorious black ops squad also fielded a team of hackers — one that attempted to destabilize Ukraine in the months before …

Two US disinformation experts have launched a DIY news outlet.
Not on Mastodon yet though. Missing a trick methinks.
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2025/indicator-alexios-mantzarlis-craig-silverman/

Two disinformation experts have launched a DIY news outlet - Poynter
With Indicator, Alexios Mantzarlis and Craig Silverman bring a deep well of experience fighting falsehoods into a chaotic and cynical online world

I nearly gave my credit card to a legit-looking Maine business, until I noticed their “privacy policy” linked to Wikipedia. That’s not laziness but AI-generated HTML vibecoded into place without review. And a lot more can go wrong than a missing legal page.
https://www.

How fake news can turn against its spreader
Dorje C. Brody, Tomooki Yuasa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.17820 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504…

Computer scientist Greg Nelson and I presented "Following AI's Footsteps from School to Society" at the 2025 UMaine Faculty Institute https://mycampus.maine.edu/web/uc-faculty-portal/faculty-institute-2025 including the IMPACT RISK framew…

Ukraine tallies up Russian cyberattacks on local media since start of war https://therecord.media/ukraine-media-cyberattacks-russia-ssscip-report