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Having a national science agency just making up fake science news with the "help" of "AI" tells you all you need to know about the value that science has. 🤦
«CSIRO posts AI-fake climate article with made-up quotes»
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/30/csiro-posts-ai-fake-climate-article-with-made-up-quotes/

Signs of the times
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5k0ny6p2wo
@…

A Sign Of Humour: The mystery behind Glasgow's fake street signs
A self-proclaimed guerilla artist based in Glasgow is covering the city in parody street signs.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19064 has been replaced.
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The Stepwise Deception: Simulating the Evolution from True News to Fake News with LLM Agents
With the growing spread of misinformation online, understanding how true news evolves into fake news has become crucial for early detection and prevention. However, previous research has often assumed fake news inherently exists rather than exploring its gradual formation. To address this gap, we propose FUSE (Fake news evolUtion Simulation framEwork), a novel Large Language Model (LLM)-based simulation approach explicitly focusing on fake news evolution from real news. Our framework model a so…

🗞️ Reading news on social media for two weeks improves knowledge and fake news recognition, study finds
#news

Reading news on social media for two weeks improves knowledge and fake news recognition, study finds
Consuming news on social media is often associated with "doom scrolling," where people spend excessive time online consuming negative news. However, researchers have found that this same behavior, when leveraged effectively, can help foster a well-informed society.

AI-generated political fanfiction videos that feature political stars and look like breaking news are proliferating in places like Mr. Noah's Stories on YouTube (David Weigel/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/28/2025/a…

AI-powered political fanfiction racks up views online
Fake stories about real politicians sometimes get more views than real-world reporting that’s not built for the algorithms.

Den här artikeln berör annat än hälsofrågor men problemet är precis det samma. Använd inte AI för att få svar på mer kontroversiella frågor där du inte kan något sen tidigare. För allt för ofta så ger den dig påhittade svar samtidigt som det låter väldigt självsäkert.
AI swallows misinformation and spits it back at us: ‘It’s optimized to give useful information, but not for it to be correct’

AI swallows misinformation and spits it back at us: ‘It’s optimized to give useful information, but not for it to be correct’
ChatGPT and Grok absorb fake news and regurgitate it when asked. Due to their design, these models and their competitors are highly susceptible to disinformation

Fake-Bewertungen, Betrug und Manipulation im App Store: Apple nennt Zahlen
Apples stark frequentierter App Store lockt auch Betrüger in großem Stil. Der Konzern nennt neue Zahlen zu seinen Anti-Scam-Maßnahmen.

Meta did this? Mastodon gGmbH’s partner Meta at the Social Web Foundation?
But aren’t Mastodon gGmbH the good guys? I can’t see how they’d ever partner with Meta if this were true.
No, no, this must be fake news.
(Otherwise, what would it say about Mastodon gGmbH and the Social Web Foundation?)
https://socialwebfoundation.org/…

Social Web Foundation
Towards a bigger, better fediverse

»Post-Fakten-Ära — Wie rechte Kanäle und prorussische Netzwerke mit Fake News Feuer legen:
Die jüngste Eskalation im spanischen Torre Pacheco zeigte erneut das schreckliche Potenzial von Falschinformationen. Ein Umstand, mit dem der rechte Rand die EU ins Wanken bringen möchte«
Dies nicht seit heute und war schon immer im Web, doch es nimmt nun durch Russland massiv zu.
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Wie rechte Kanäle und prorussische Netzwerke mit Fake News Feuer legen
Die jüngste Eskalation im spanischen Torre Pacheco zeigte erneut das schreckliche Potenzial von Falschinformationen. Ein Umstand, mit dem der rechte Rand die EU ins Wanken bringen möchte

Nach dem Wiedersehen mit Staffel 1 von Designated Survivor bleibt ein bitterer Nachgeschmack – der Plot klingt inzwischen wie ein Blick in aktuelle Nachrichten: Inländischer Extremismus, Fake News und Machtkämpfe im Weißen Haus. Ein Politthriller als Spiegel unserer Zeit. #USA #Trump

Designated Survivor: Wenn Realität die Fiktion einholt
Nach dem Wiedersehen mit Staffel 1 von Designated Survivor bleibt ein bitterer Nachgeschmack – der Plot klingt inzwischen wie ein Blick in aktuelle Nachrichten: Inländischer Extremismus, Fake News …

Vollständig gefälschte CPUs jetzt auch als "Ryzen 9800X3D"
In den USA ist ein Fake von AMDs Topseller aufgetaucht, der nach bekanntem Muster hergestellt wurde und mangels Dies funktionslos ist.

Journalismus 2025 👏
https://www.profil.at/oesterreich/elfriede-jelinek-tot-erklaert-tommaso-debenedetti-fake-news-tweet/403051107

Warum haben Sie Elfriede Jelinek für tot erklärt, Herr Debenedetti?
Am Dienstag hat der italienische Journalist und Hoaxer Tommaso Debenedetti die österreichische Literaturnobelpreisträgerin Elfriede Jelinek mithilfe eines Fake-Accounts für tot erklärt. Warum er das macht, und auf wen er es als Nächstes abgesehen hat.

SFNet: Fusion of Spatial and Frequency-Domain Features for Remote Sensing Image Forgery Detection
Ji Qi, Xinchang Zhang, Dingqi Ye, Yongjia Ruan, Xin Guo, Shaowen Wang, Haifeng Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20599

SFNet: Fusion of Spatial and Frequency-Domain Features for Remote Sensing Image Forgery Detection
The rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence is producing fake remote sensing imagery (RSI) that is increasingly difficult to detect, potentially leading to erroneous intelligence, fake news, and even conspiracy theories. Existing forgery detection methods typically rely on single visual features to capture predefined artifacts, such as spatial-domain cues to detect forged objects like roads or buildings in RSI, or frequency-domain features to identify artifacts from up-sampling …

Jaydon Blue rips 'fake article' claiming Cowboys staff has work ethic concerns https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/jaydon-blue-rips-fake-article-claiming-dallas-cowboys-work-ethic-concerns

Feds: Just change your State's whole way of doing things and make your ID's "Real ID". That way we can be sure they aren't fake.
Also Feds: This "Real ID" looks fake, we're deporting you!
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-ci…

U.S. citizen with REAL ID handcuffed in Alabama immigration raid and held before release
A U.S.-born citizen who was wrestled into the dirt, handcuffed and detained in a vehicle as part of an immigration raid had a REAL ID on him that was dismissed as fake, the man's cousin said Friday.

(For release)
Attention Media: Today, I completely OBLITERATED a hot fudge sundae.
Said me earlier, "It was really bad. It was devastating. It's obliterated. Like, you can’t get to the nuts & sprinkles. I think we all had a great victory here.”
Any claims otherwise is fake news.

SEER: Semantic Enhancement and Emotional Reasoning Network for Multimodal Fake News Detection
Peican Zhu, Yubo Jing, Le Cheng, Bin Chen, Xiaodong Cui, Lianwei Wu, Keke Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13415

SEER: Semantic Enhancement and Emotional Reasoning Network for Multimodal Fake News Detection
Previous studies on multimodal fake news detection mainly focus on the alignment and integration of cross-modal features, as well as the application of text-image consistency. However, they overlook the semantic enhancement effects of large multimodal models and pay little attention to the emotional features of news. In addition, people find that fake news is more inclined to contain negative emotions than real ones. Therefore, we propose a novel Semantic Enhancement and Emotional Reasoning (SE…

Modeling the Impact of Misinformation Dynamics on Antimicrobial Resistance
Laurance Fakih, Andrei Halanay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21540 https://

Modeling the Impact of Misinformation Dynamics on Antimicrobial Resistance
Antimicrobial Resistance (RAM) poses a significant threat to global public health, making important medicines less useful. While the medical and biological reasons behind RAM are well studied, we still don't know enough about how false health information affects people's actions, which can speed up RAM. This study presents a new mathematical model to investigate the complex interplay between the spread of misinformation and the dynamics of RAM. We adapt a multi-strain fake news model, including…

Fake videos and conspiracies fuel falsehoods about Los Angeles protests - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fake-videos-conspiracies-falsehoods-los-angeles-protests/

"Resources to demystify fake news and misinformation"
https://doi.org/10.1080/15228959.2025.2519020
– closed access, unfortunately ... 🙄

«Beat #Jans, der Vorsteher des für das Geschäft verantwortlichen Justiz- und Polizei­departements, betrieb dabei ein geschicktes und irreführendes Spiel. So liess er in der Antwort sinngemäss schreiben: Mit der #Vüpf-Revision ändert sich nichts.
De facto aber weitete das Justiz­departement di…

FBI gives Congress intel on alleged Chinese plot to create fake mail-in ballots in 2020 (John Solomon/Just The News)
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/fbi-gives-congress-intel-alleged-chinese-plot-create-fake-mail
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p48#a250617p48

Proof the army thinks birds are real.
Army tests robotic coyotes to defend fighter jets
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2025/07/07/army-tests-robotic-coyotes-to-defend-fighter-jets/

The US Treasury's OFAC sanctions individuals and companies linked to North Korea's fake tech worker scheme, including "malicious cyber actor" Song Kum Hyok (Magdalena Del Valle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A group of major European media organisations has launched ChatEurope - a chatbot aimed at combating online disinformation.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news-analysis/2025/european-media-consortium-launches-anti-disinformation-chat…

European media consortium launches Euro chatbot to counter fake news
A group of major European media organisations has launched ChatEurope - a chatbot aimed at combating online disinformation.

Verhasster Vorgänger - Trump verbreitet Fake-Video von Obama im Gefängnis #News #Nachrichten

Millionenstrafe wegen Fake-Rabatten für Shein in Frankreich
Preisnachlass oder Mogelpackung? Französische Kontrolleure fanden bei etlichen Shein-Produkten Ungereimtheiten bei Rabatten. Das Unternehmen soll nun zahlen.

I remember vividly when the Fediverse immediately used the fake news about an alleged #Israel​i airstrike on al-Ahli Arab Hospital on 17 October 2023 as evidence for an ongoing genocide.
Wondering what the conclusion from the #Iran​ian airstrike on

Iranian missile strikes hit Israeli hospital
Israel is targeted by new Iranian missile strikes with several hits, among them, the Soroka Hospital in Beersheba. Israel earlier reportedly attacked a key heavy-water research reactor in Khondab. DW has more.

Rechte haben ein kindisches Faible für Flaggen, Fackeln, Feinde, Flüchtlinge, Fake News und so weiter.
Da hat wohl jemand die wehenden Fahnen der #Nazis mit Hakenkreuz als Vorbild vor Augen.
Man sollte sich zweimal überlegen, wem man welches Gebäude verkauft.
#AfD

Bützow in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Großer Bahnhof für die AfD
Wer mit dem Zug zwischen Rostock und Schwerin unterwegs ist, passiert einen Kleinbahnhof, der seit Kurzem AfD-Optik trägt. Fahrgäste sind schockiert, der Eigentümer des Gebäudes sieht den »Bürgerwillen« repräsentiert, die Bahn zeigt sich machtlos.

Marco Rubio impostor reportedly using AI to contact multiple senior officials
According to a state department cable seen by the Washington Post, the impostor sent fake voice messages and texts that mimicked Rubio’s voice and writing style to targets including three foreign ministers, a US governor and a member of Congress.
The cable, dated 3 July, said the impostor “left voicemails on Signal for at least two targeted individuals” and sent text messages inviting others to communi…

Fake CNN and BBC sites used to push investment scams https://therecord.media/news-websites-faked-to-spread-investment-scams

You'll never become a NATIVE English speaker
No matter how hard you try, the years in the UK or Ireland, the effort in your accent, or the AI applications you might use to fake it
There is a language wall, made of accents, cultural references and seemingly illogical phrasal verbs and idioms, that we cannot jump
But IT DOESN'T MATTER.
90% of your interactions are probably with other non-native speakers. As long as you understand each other, you're good.

Neither British nor American: how Europeans speak their own flavour of English - The European Perspective
Learning English with Elton John

White House rips into 'fake' NBC News report that Trump only 'obliterated' one of three Iran nuclear targets | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14915671/white-house-nbc-report-trump-iran-nuclear-targets.html

FAKE NEWS
STOP DESCRIBING PEOPLE THAT DON'T EXIST!
#parody

The White House removes WSJ from the pool of reporters covering Trump's trip to Scotland, says it is due to WSJ's "fake and defamatory conduct" (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/21/journal-removed-white-house-pool-ep…

Trump Administration Live Updates: Amid Epstein Furor, Trump Posts Fake Obama Arrest Video (Matthew Mpoke Bigg/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07/21/us/trump-news
http://www.memeorandum.com/250721/p59#a250721p59

It’s getting this crazy out there!
Android malware Crocodilus adds fake contacts to spoof trusted callers https://ground.news/article/android-malware-crocodilus-adds-fake-contacts-to-spoof-trusted-callers

See, this is another problem with the chatbot bullshit. Here, an OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to 'subhuman' men saying they won't be able to find chicks no matter how much confidence they fake.
Dudes, let me tell you, this is TOTAL bullshit. I mean, if I can find a wife, ANYONE can. 😂 The incel bullshit is so sad. It's all lies, they're believing all these lies.

OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men
OpenAI's featured chatbot recommends $200,000 in surgeries while promoting incel ideology

Merci ans Fotomuseum Winterthur fürs Vertrauen und die unterdessen 6 Millionen Views (12 Millionen Eyeballs)
https://www.blick.ch/digital/ki-video-mit-trump-deepfake-geht-viral-die-schweiz-existiert-nicht-id20846382.ht…

Wo früher recherchiert, wird heute frisiert: Laut Volksverpetzer verbreiten etablierte Medien wie Schwäbische Zeitung, Cicero & Berliner Zeitung immer häufiger Desinformation im Dienste von Rechtsruck, Profit und persönlicher Agenda. Pressefreiheit heißt nicht Fake-News-Freiheit
- Volksverpetzer https://www.

Diese 5 einst seriösen Medien verbreiten jetzt Desinformation
Wer die gefährlichste Desinformation nur auf Telegram oder Twitter sucht, und auch etablierte Medien außer Acht lässt, begeht einen Fehler. Fünf Beispiele von einst seriösen Medien, die immer häufiger in die Desinformation abdriften.

Attorney General Bailey Fights To Expose Big Tech Censorship Of President Trump As AI Chatbots Produce Fake News (AG Bailey/Attorney General Office of Missouri)
https://ago.mo.gov/attorney-general-bailey-fights-to-expose-big-tech-censorship-of-president-trump-as-ai-chatbots-produce-fake-news/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250709/p153#a250709p153

@… ist das wahr oder fake news? dachte ameisen haben schlechte augen, eher hell dunkel, und regeln das in welt zurecht finden, vor allem über gerüche? #ameisen #biologie

Trump says he will sue the WSJ and Rupert Murdoch over a story alleging he sent a racy letter to Jeffrey Epstein and claims he warned them the letter was "fake" (Irie Sentner/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/17/trump…

Oh, #Fefe hat sein TLS-Zertifikat erneuert… dann wird es wohl bald wieder losgehen.
http://blog.fefe.de/
Nachtrag: Ich war zu verpeilt und zu müde, als ich das getippt habe. Die Fake News bleiben hier zu meine…

"The National Park Service announced Tuesday the rollout of a new annual body-dumping pass for use on federal lands" #Burgum #TheOnion

AI Generated Text Detection Using Instruction Fine-tuned Large Language and Transformer-Based Models
Chinnappa Guggilla, Budhaditya Roy, Trupti Ramdas Chavan, Abdul Rahman, Edward Bowen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05157

AI Generated Text Detection Using Instruction Fine-tuned Large Language and Transformer-Based Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) possess an extraordinary capability to produce text that is not only coherent and contextually relevant but also strikingly similar to human writing. They adapt to various styles and genres, producing content that is both grammatically correct and semantically meaningful. Recently, LLMs have been misused to create highly realistic phishing emails, spread fake news, generate code to automate cyber crime, and write fraudulent scientific articles. Additionally, in many…

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Interpretable Graph Learning Over Sets of Temporally-Sparse Data
Real-world medical data often includes measurements from multiple signals that are collected at irregular and asynchronous time intervals. For example, different types of blood tests can be measured at different times and frequencies, resulting in fragmented and unevenly scattered temporal data. Similar issues of irregular sampling of different attributes occur in other domains, such as monitoring of large systems using event log files or the spread of fake news on social networks. Effectively …

Fractal Social Dynamics as a Driver of Consensus and Inequality
Airton Deppman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13849 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Fractal Social Dynamics as a Driver of Consensus and Inequality
Human social behavior is organized in stratified, hierarchical networks, with a support group with about 5 members, expanding proportionally at each layer up to a maximum of approximately 150 frequent interactions per individual. This is known as Social Brain Hypothesis, and its findings are supported by psychological and neurological evidence. The fractal network framework provides valuable insights into social phenomena such as the spread of fake news and the development of technology. This s…

Russia-linked group spoofing European journalists to spread disinformation https://therecord.media/russia-group-spoofing-journalists-disinfo

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.01965 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Linear inelastic kinetic equations modelling the spread of fake news and its interplay with personal awareness
In this paper, we introduce a kinetic model which describes a learning process leading individuals to build personal awareness about fake news. Next, we embed the results of this model into another kinetic model, which describes the popularity gained by news on social media conditioned to the reliability of the disseminated information. Both models are formulated in terms of linear inelastic Boltzmann-type equations, of which we investigate the main analytical properties - existence and uniquen…

Trump macht Politik zur Reality Show, die EU duckt sich vor US-Konzernen, Berater suchen im KI-Zeitalter nach ihrer Daseinsberechtigung und die SPD verliert weiter an Boden. Michel Friedman kritisiert den Begriff "Protestwähler" : Wer AfD wählt, gibt denen Macht, die die Republik zerstören wollen. Auch Im Journalismus: Wir brauchen die alte, liberale Mitte jenseits der Filterblasen, Deep Fakes, Fake News und Hassbotschaften.

I don't care that it's printed in the Radio Times, this has got to be fake news. Debbie Harry is not, can not be, an 80-year-old woman.
#DebbieHarry #Blondie #70sMusic #80sMusic #TOTP

Macht die SRG Katzenvideos, wie die Jungfreisinnige in der Arena behauptet? Tatbeweis, dass es einen Service Public braucht, der solche Fake News korrigiert. https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/sendung-zur-halbierungsinitiative-jungpolitikerin-fordert-srg-chefin-wille-in-der-arena-heraus-206197007729