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Attacken von APT28 und Co.: Was die Bundesregierung Russland vorwirft
Falschnachrichten, Fake-Videos und eine Cyberattacke: Die Bundesregierung ordnet Russland hybride Angriffe unter anderem auf den Bundestagswahlkampf zu.

UK police say they banned Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from a soccer match in 2025 after Copilot hallucinated a fake West Ham-Maccabi match in an intelligence report (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/861668/uk-police-microsoft-copilot-error-mistake<…

UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake
A British police force is blaming Microsoft’s Copilot assistant for an intelligence report mistake. Copilot made up a football match that didn’t exist.

An investigation finds 50 apparently fake experts who offered commentary to the UK press in recent years, getting featured 1,000 times in various articles (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/named-50-experts-and…

Named: 50 'experts' and linked brands publishers should treat with caution
Experts and brands associated with more than 1,000 likely faked stories.

Election denier involved in fake electors plot wrote much of SAVE America Act, Trump-aligned think tank claims (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/election-denier-involved-in-fake-electors-plot-wrote-much-of-save-america-act-trump-aligned-think-tank-claims/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p107#a260212p107

Schöner artikel von Stefan Sonderegger zu fake news im 16. jahrhundert …
#histCH

Schöner artikel von Stefan Sonderegger zu fake news im 16. jahrhundert …
#histCH

Schöner artikel von Stefan Sonderegger zu fake news im 16. jahrhundert …
#histCH

Personal finance app Betterment says an individual accessed certain systems to send fake crypto scam notification and believes the person accessed user info (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

Did you see that thing about the whistleblower engineer exposing how a food delivery company exploits its drivers? It turned out to be a hoax:
https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax-debunked/
The thing is, I don’t doubt that companies •do• in fact do stuff like what the whistleblower described, if not in such cartoonish terms. But this story is apparently fake, and that matters.

42 % sehen Fake News als Gefahr für die Demokratie – doch immerhin: Der Glaube an Journalismus kehrt zurück! #VodafoneDE meldet steigendes Vertrauen in redaktionelle Inhalte. Vielleicht merken wir langsam, dass ein Faktencheck mehr bringt als ein Filter. #FakeNews

It's a pretty big day in cybersecurity news, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the critical developments you should know, including
--Korean cops raid Coupang HQ looking for security lapses, breach perpetrator clues,
--Compromise NDAA bill is chock full of cyber provisions,
--FTC rejects petition from spyware company founder,
--Commonwealth Bank of Australia fined A$702k for breaching data rules,
--FBI warns of fake proof of life photos,
--Oz…

Korean cops raid Coupang HQ looking for security lapses, breach perpetrator clues
Compromise NDAA bill is chock full of cyber provisions, FTC rejects petition from spyware company founder, Commonwealth Bank of Australia fined A$702k for breaching data rules, FBI warns of fake proof of life photos, Oz teen social media limits go live tomorrow, much more

ICE aren’t real cops. Good cops know this too 👏
#ice #antifascism

🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖
Retröt: #Desinformation und #Mythen gefährden unsere Demokratie und verblöden unsere #Kinder.
Stärke Deine

Medienkompetenz stärken: Fake-News erkennen und Tipps zum Prüfen von Quellen
Lerne, wie Du Fake-News erkennst und seriöse Quellen prüfst. Faktencheck leicht gemacht!

Colts run back-to-back fake punts, including one on first down that catches the Texans totally off guard

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/colts-fake-punt-first-down-texans-back-to-b…

X greift nicht ein: Sexuelle Fake-Bilder echter Frauen kursieren weiter
Die Grok-KI erstellt öffentlich sexuelle Deepfakes von Frauen und Kindern. Bis das behoben ist, läuft die Funktion offenbar einfach weiter.

»Fakt oder Fake? Die Faktenchecks von SRF:
Vom 26. Januar bis 1. Februar rückt SRF Faktenchecks in den Fokus und fragt, was Fake News für unser Leben bedeuten.«
Diese Woche auf schweizer Radio & Fernseh so wie online über KI und deren Wahrheit so wie Vertrauenswürdigkeit. Da bin ich mal gespannt was die das uns aufzeigen und wie die es vermitteln.
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Fakt oder Fake? Die Faktenchecks von SRF
Fake News können sich im Internet schnell verbreiten. SRF liefert unabhängige Faktenchecks zu aktuellen Themen aus Politik, Kultur und Gesellschaft.

Estš bombando no Instagram uma notícia sobre adutora que estourou em Nova Iguaçu e inundou tudo e que vai faltar šgua em toda a região metropolitana do Rio, mas não consegui confirmar isso em nenhum site sério. Tem cara de ser fake com IA (ou vídeo antigo) Ališs, não me surpreenderia se fossem pessoas fazendo testes envolvendo fake news jš pensando nas eleições.

Medienversagen. Ein Jahr in die zweite Amtszeit von Donald Trump hinein, nach Säuberung offizieller Seiten von unliebsamen Inhalten und offener Desinformation durch die Regierung, dies noch als Frage zu formulieren statt als Fakt, ist unfassbar. https://www.

Fake-Songs & KI-Bands - So revolutioniert die KI das globale Musikgeschäft #News #Nachrichten

🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖
Retröt: #Desinformation und #Mythen gefährden unsere Demokratie und verblöden unsere #Kinder.
Stärke Deine

Medienkompetenz stärken: Fake-News erkennen und Tipps zum Prüfen von Quellen
Lerne, wie Du Fake-News erkennst und seriöse Quellen prüfst. Faktencheck leicht gemacht!

A survey by the News Literacy Project of US 13- to 18-year-olds shows 84% use negative words including "boring", "fake", or "biased" to describe news media (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/news-media-

Survey shows how much teenagers dislike the news media
You don't have to tell Cat Murphy or Lily Ogburn about the attitudes of young people toward journalists. The profession hasn't been popular among adults for many years, but a new survey shows the extent to which teens aged 13 to 18 feel the same way; Murphy and Ogburn have seen it for years among their friends who wonder why they want to go into the field. Experts say it's a combination of their surroundings, including the most prominent politician they have known — Donald Trump — who frequ…

That whole article is worth a read. It’s a good yarn. Here are the final paragraphs, and the link.
https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax-debunked/

Fooled me too, to be fair https://augsburg.social/@subraumpixel/115847631449705195

Oh man, imagine renting a flat in London, and your landlord (or someone given access by them) lets themselves in to film a TikTok falsely claiming that an illegal immigrant lives there.
https://www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-london-immigrants-fake-news-hous…

Who's secretly filming fake TikToks inside Londoners' homes?
We tracked down the viral video account invading people's houses to spread false claims about immigrants.

Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax-debunked/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p102#a260106p102

EXCLUSIVE: Marco Rubio Is Deliberately Blocking Trump From Cuba Talks
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/marco-rubio-is-deliberately-blocking

Motorist gets ticket for drawing fake inspection and registration stickers with crayon | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/motorist-ticket-fake-stickers-crayon-b2870623.html

🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖
Retröt: #Desinformation und #Mythen gefährden unsere Demokratie und verblöden unsere #Kinder.
Stärke Deine

Medienkompetenz stärken: Fake-News erkennen und Tipps zum Prüfen von Quellen
Lerne, wie Du Fake-News erkennst und seriöse Quellen prüfst. Faktencheck leicht gemacht!

😿 Myanmar’s election is derided as fake, but the nation’s suffering is all too real
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/28/asia-pacific/myanmar-election-people-suffering/

Myanmar’s election is derided as fake, but the nation’s suffering is all too real
The vote, the first since the 2021 coup, has been almost universally dismissed as political playacting.

Indigenous American actress Elaine Miles, who played Marilyn on “Northern Exposure” detained by ICE who claimed her Tribal ID issued in Oregon was fake.
#ICE #citizen #trump

#SRF macht diese Woche eine Themenwoche zu KI und Fake News!
🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭
Die Schweizer sind offenbar grottenschlecht darin, Fake News zu erkennen.
Es lohnt sich also, diese Woche im Sinne von Weiterbildung Schweizer Fernsehen zu schauen und Schweizer Radio zu hören. 🤗
🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭
#KI

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Nein, das Militär hat in Frankreich nicht die Regierung gestürzt

Patrick Mahomes' indoor record and stats with Chiefs are so ridiculous they seem fake https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/kansas-city-chiefs/news/patrick-mahomes-indoor-record-stats-chiefs-ridiculous/8b5…

Indigenous actor Elaine Miles says ICE called her tribal ID ‘fake’ | The Seattle Times https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/indigenous-actress-elaine-miles-says-ice-called-her-tribal-id-fake/

Here is a White House website falsely asserting that military personnel CANNOT refuse illegal orders
And falsely accusing Democrats of asserting Trump has issued illegal orders -- in a video which doesn't mention Trump
The felon doth protest too much
https://www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/

Media Offenders
Uncover Media Bias & Hold Fake News Accountable. False claims debunked, serial offenders immortalized in the Hall of Fame, networks ranked on the Leaderboard of Repeat Lies. Stay informed, stay accurate.

⚡️ Attack on PUTIN'S RESIDENCE – debunking the FAKE NEWS! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/30/attack-on-putins-residence-debunking.html

From David Suzuki
The David Suzuki Foundation has been informed of several fake news stories, ads and videos circulating online that falsely claim to be endorsed by David Suzuki or the David Suzuki Foundation.
With the rise in AI-generated misinformation, it is increasingly difficult to determine if the content you see online is real or not.
These fake ads often link to websites selling products, sharing disinformation or promoting financial scams.
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Good Morning #Canada
It's National Throw Out Your Leftovers Day, the fake holiday brought to you by greedy grocery conglomerates. I live on lunches that are 90% leftovers from our dinners so I know throwing out perfectly good food is a waste. But you need to be safe so here's some information about how to store food so that it doesn't kill you later that week. Most of it is common sense - like not storing leftovers on your stove top for 5 days before you decide to eat it. I won't do that again...
#CanadaIsAwesome #SmellTest
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/leftovers-food-safety-faq-1.7412668

“Media Offenders” – this term should not refer to journalists who anger Trump with their reporting, but to the Darth #Trump administration itself.
It constantly attacks #media coverage, disparages and threatens media professionals.
Trump and his accomplices are the real “Media Offenders.”
There is…

Media Offenders
Explore the Media Bias Tracker that fact checks and holds Fake News accountable. False claims debunked, Hall of Shame for serial offenders, Leaderboard of networks ranked by Repeated Lies. Stay informed, stay accurate.

#Drumpf #DOJ repopulates its decimated depths by recruiting from the shadowy bowels of the anti-voting activist world. The head of the dangerously deplorablized division “is now openly begging for applicants on social media, and after losing hundreds of years of law enforcement experience, the division now appears to be fast-…

One New DOJ Voting Lawyer Worked on Georgia Fake Electors Plot. Another Was Part of Cleta Mitchell’s Anti-Voting Network
Read more here.

In a reversal, Trump endorses Nexstar's $6.2B acquisition of Tegna, saying "We need more competition against THE ENEMY, the Fake News National TV Networks" (Laya Neelakandan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/07/trump-nexstar-tegna.html

Fake-News über Staatsstreich: Präsident Macron zürnt Facebook
Ein millionenfach angesehenes KI-Video erfindet einen Staatsstreich. Sogar andere Staatschefs fallen rein. Facebook sperrt es nicht. Macron sucht Abhilfe.

60 years ago tonight, the merry pranksters' first informal acid test, held at ken babbs's place outside santa cruz, where the grateful dead did not play (& all purported flyers are almost certainly fake). below text from dennis mcnally's bio & i wrote about it for the 50th.

Amazon blocks 1,800 job applications from suspected North Korean agents
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3e0kw80wwzo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

Amazon blocks 1,800 job applications from suspected North Korean agents
The firm’s chief security officer said North Koreans tried to apply for remote working IT jobs using stolen or fake identities.

Leavitt Claims Wiles' Taped Interviews Are "Fake News" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/leavitt-claims-wiles-taped-interviews-are-fake-news/

@… Fake News 😉

'Lies, smears and AI deepfakes': DHS tackles fake news about ICE (Anna Giaritelli/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3890483/lies-smears-ai-deepfakes-dhs-tackles-fake-news-about-ice/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p143#a251119p143

Adelaide Mail Week In Review
South Australia's Other Fake News Source (but if the courts ask, it's satire)...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/adelaide-mail-week-in-review/

This reminds me of how truth is just whatever monster people decide to follow.
#Fascism #Nazis #Authoritarianism

YouTube sperrt zwei populäre Kanäle wegen KI-generierter Fake-Trailer
YouTube hat die Kanäle Screen Culture und KH Studio dauerhaft gesperrt. Beide hatten mit KI-generierten Film-Trailern Millionen Views generiert.

“We lead by love. This is community. We send no orders, there’s no orders out here, just people defending each other. And we don’t need a f*cking gun to do it. We don’t need body armor to do it. We don’t need to beat up protestors, we don’t need to beat up fake news to do it. We show up, put our f*cking bodies on the line because we don’t f*ck with n*zis. Maybe one day, maybe one day, you can say the same. Community will welcome you back…”
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NVIDIA Says We're "Fake News" | Gaslighting, GPU Bans, & Export Controls Update - Gamers Nexus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCGRXuINFz0

Trump's pardon of Rudi Guilliani
could wind up having a huge effect on election conspirators like Matthew Alan Laiss,
who is accused of voting in both Pennsylvania and Florida in the 2020 election.
According to a federal indictment handed down in September,
Laiss moved from Pennsylvania to Florida in August of 2020 and voted first with a mail-in ballot in Pennsylvania and then in person in Florida on election day.
Both votes were for Trump, Laiss’ lawyers …

Does Brandon Aubrey get fantasy points for his rushing yards? Explaining Cowboys' kicker rule for fake field goal https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/do…

There is a a very mushy line between education and indoctrination in the UK's approach to religious education. We've had problems ourselves with one of my kids RE teacher declaring that fossils are fake and that the big bang made no sense. I'm perfectly fine with the education part, especially given how important religion is in so many peoples lives. Having knowledge of the basic precepts and practices is an important part of understanding and empathising with others.

UK Supreme Court rules RE taught in NI schools is unlawful
The Christian religious education taught in schools in Northern Ireland is unlawful, the UK Supreme Court has ruled.

„Media Offenders“ - dazu sollten nicht jene JournalistInnen, die Trump wegen ihrer Berichterstattung erzürnen, stehen, sondern die Darth #Trump Andministration selbst.
Sie attackiert in einem fort die #Medienberichterstattung, verunglimpft und bedroht Medienschaffende.
Trump und seine…

Media Offenders
Explore the Media Bias Tracker that fact checks and holds Fake News accountable. False claims debunked, Hall of Shame for serial offenders, Leaderboard of networks ranked by Repeated Lies. Stay informed, stay accurate.

Indigenous actor Elaine Miles says ICE called her tribal ID 'fake' (Kai Uyehara/The Seattle Times)
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/indigenous-actress-elaine-miles-says-ice-called-her-tribal-id-fake/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p39#a251127p39

Vor dem Black Friday: Warnung vor Fake-Laufwerken in Amazons Marketplace
Dubiose Händler verkaufen online gebrauchte SSDs und Festplatten als Neuware. Der Betrug ist vor dem Kauf für Laien nur schwer zu erkennen.

Freitag: Cyberangriffe auf US-Radiosender, TSMC-Vorwürfe an neuen Intel-Manager
Fake-Radiomeldungen durch Cyberangreifer Verdacht auf TSMC-Geheimnisverrat Energiemix mehrheitlich erneuerbar Österreichs Server Housing X-Feed änderbar

»Die Macht der KI:
Das Internet, einst Ort freien Wissens, scheint heute ein Meinungsmonopol weniger Tech-Milliardäre zu sein. @… diskutiert mit Collien Fernandes und @…, wie KI diese Entwicklung noch verstärkt …

Die Macht der KI
Wer hat uns das Internet geklaut? Sarah Bosetti begibt sich auf die Suche nach den Tech-Dieben, die Freiheit und Wissen gegen Hass, Fake News und KI vertauscht haben.

Betrügerische Mails - Fake-Chef forderte Gutscheine für Weihnachten #News #Nachrichten

When you're running low on fake criminals to arrest for made up reasons, so you try to expand the pool a bit!
https://www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/news/article/upstate-naturalization-ceremonies-canceled-uscis-21180365.php<…

KI ist längst kein Zukunftsthema mehr – sie schreibt E-Mails, bereitet Podcasts vor und flutet unsere Timelines mit KI-Videos und Fake News. Jetzt kommen die ‚KI-Agenten‘: autonome Assistenten, die selbstständig handeln sollen. Doch wer kontrolliert sie? Zwischen Bequemlichkeit und Datenschutz klafft eine Lücke. Wie viel KI vertragen wir – und wer zahlt den Preis, wenn etwas schiefgeht?
#KI

There needs to be contract language drawn up for government using consultants that amounts to
"if the final report is found to contain AI-generated fake or mis-quoted information, or it is otherwise suspect that part or all of the report has been generated using an LLM, the entire report will be considered inadmissible and a full refund of all costs will be expected.”
That's how you protect the integrity of public decision making.
#CanPoli #NLPoli #AI #LLM
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/nl-deloitte-citations-9.6990216

Dr. Kirk Moore had been on trial for five days,
accused of falsifying COVID-19 vaccination cards and throwing away the government-supplied doses.
The Utah plastic surgeon faced up to 35 years in prison if the jury found him guilty
on charges that included conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Testimony had paused for the weekend when Moore’s lawyer called him early one Saturday this July
with what felt to him like unbelievable news.
U.S. Attorney Gener…

Pam Bondi Dismissed Charges Against a Surgeon Who Falsified Vaccine Cards. It Emboldened Others With Similar Cases.
A Utah surgeon’s victory in a vaccine fraud case has encouraged other “medical freedom” advocates to consider seeking leniency for similar charges. “This undermines every layer of the system that protects us from infectious disease,” an expert said.

ICE assaulting a pregnant woman.
Covering their license plates with fake spray-on snow to hide the numbers.
Getting pelted with snowballs by the crowd and responding with pepper spray — which only increased the snowballs.
Just this afternoon’s local news.
Video of the snowballs (CW: person being assaulted, dragged)
(UPDATE: video attached in case FB blocks; source URL is https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1ZaUBtkGCZ/)

Wenn KI-generierte Fake News internationale Wellen schlagen: Ein gefälschtes Video über einen angeblichen Militärputsch in Frankreich hat für diplomatische Verwirrung gesorgt und den Zorn von Präsident Emmanuel Macron auf sich gezogen. 😮
Zum Artikel: https://h…

Nexstar's FCC filing in its $6.2B proposed merger with Tegna asks for urgent approval, which would require changing rules that limit station ownership (Al Tompkins/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025/nexstar-perry-sook-t…

‘We are the anti-fake news.’ Nexstar appeals to Trump while seeking a merger with Tegna - Poynter
The broadcaster is pressing the FCC to fast-track a $6.2B deal that would expand its reach to more than half of US households

Jugendliche steigen aus – nicht wegen Langeweile, sondern wegen Hass, Aggression und Fake News. Laut @Postbank-Studie verlieren Instagram, TikTok & Co. massiv an Reichweite bei 16- bis 18-Jährigen. Doch die Suchtgefahr bleibt: 75 % halten Freunde für abhängig. #SocialMedia #Jugendstudie…

“Why was Renee Good unfortunately and tragically killed?” Leavitt asked.
“Because an ICE agent acted recklessly and killed her unjustifiably,” Stanage replied.
Leavitt then shot back: “OK, so you’re a biased reporter with a leftwing opinion … Because you’re a leftwing hack. You’re not a reporter, posing in this room as a journalist...And you and the people of the media who have such biases but fake like you’re a journalist, you shouldn’t even be sitting in that seat.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/15/karoline-leavitt-journalist-tirade?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

note: links to post of #ice shooting video.
As horrid, tragic, and fascist as this day's news has been... the one bright spot around here is that people are learning about why federated, peer distributed, and non-corporate platforms are essential for our democracy.
We used to all* believe that this was what made the corporate platforms special, but that was just a fake, a feint, and ultimately, a fascism.
sharing this video is democracy, freedom,
resistance.
Spread the word! The #SocialWeb will fight this tyranny!
*tbf: some folks saw the writing on the wall better and a lot earlier than the rest of us. Respect to them.
#peertube #usa #cdnpoli #canpoli #theAmericanFascist #ice #minnessota #fascism #ediverse #socialweb
cc: to some pioneer politicians on Fedi. @… @… @robbotteril@socialbc.ca @… @… https://social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/115856612394163845

You are going to hear alot about a multi billion dollar greenwash--- err "carbon capture" project that oilsands companies will be "required"
to use/invest in as a quid pro quo for a NWBC oil pipeline.
Ya no. FN in Cold Lake says no thanks.
Take your fake-capture grift somewhere else.
#endfossilfuels #climatechange #climateEmergency #greenwash #canpoli #CdnPoli
https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/chief-in-alberta-teams-up-with-environmental-groups-to-try-and-stop-carbon-capture-project/