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"The Electoral Commission has called for new legal controls over misinformation from AI chatbots, after a thinktank found they had made serious mistakes during the recent Scottish election.
The thinktank Demos said its investigation had found that AI services gave voters misinformation to 34% of the questions it posed"
#ScotPol

Listening to the Revolutions podcast and there are so many things that happened based on some mistake or misinterpretation then cascade faster than anyone expects. Honestly, after all the evil shit the oligarchs are doing, I really think it'll end up being some obscure parody or just misinformation that kicks off the insurrection in the US.

The existence of truth tables implies the existence of falsehood sofas, opinion chairs, and misinformation footrests.

"How an army of volunteers is fighting climate misinformation online"
#Climate #ClimateChange

How an army of volunteers is fighting climate misinformation online
Instead of arguing with trolls, they’re amplifying the truth.

A US federal judge rules the State Department engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination by denying visas to researchers studying misinfo and disinfo (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/15/rubio-

Rubio Wanted To Ban ‘Censors’ From Entering The US. A Court Says He’s The One Censoring.
Last year, the Marco Rubio-run State Department announced that it would start denying visas to people who worked in misinformation/disinformation research, content moderation, fact-checking, or oth…

Mela is listening to a podcast: The Hidden Social Forces Behind Misinformation – Misguided - The Podcast – Matthew Facciani - https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1792074637

The Lancet Commission, composed of top experts who are focused on pressing challenges, concluded that misinformation poses biggershort-term threats than extreme weather, state-based armed conflict, and cyber insecurity.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/

A US federal judge rules the State Department engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination by denying visas to researchers studying misinfo and disinfo (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/15/rubio-

Rubio Wanted To Ban ‘Censors’ From Entering The US. A Court Says He’s The One Censoring.
Last year, the Marco Rubio-run State Department announced that it would start denying visas to people who worked in misinformation/disinformation research, content moderation, fact-checking, or oth…

The UK should treat its information environment as a form of critical democratic infrastructure to help combat the growing threat of misinformation and AI-generated content.
https://www.

UK must protect information system as democratic infrastructure, report warns
The UK should treat its information environment as a form of critical democratic infrastructure to help combat the growing threat of misinformation and AI-generated content, ...

OpenAI announces partnerships to combat election misinformation, offering cybersecurity products to state officials and backing legislation to curb deepfakes (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/27/openai-cyber-misinformation-defenses-elections

Exclusive: OpenAI readies cyber, misinformation defenses ahead of elections
OpenAI is offering its cybersecurity products to state officials and backing legislation ahead of elections in the U.S. and globally.

Librarians wondering how AI affects media literacy/acquisition policies/patrons' needs should consider joining UMaine's Digital Curation program, which tackles AI's impact on collecting institutions. I'm quoted in this related story from local NBC affiliate

Proper meteorology and climate science plucked from the swirling slurry of online hype and misinformation about the current, very strong, El Nino. If you only read a few articles about it, make this one of them.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/202…

This could be the strongest El Niño on record
Already, tropical cyclones are peppering the Pacific and skipping the Atlantic, and U.S. temperatures are topsy-turvy.

Three comments.
1) Not a fan
2) Good
3) About time
Lisa Nandy quits X over fears Musk-owned site pushes ‘abuse and misinformation’ | X | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jul/02/lisa-nandy-culture-soci…

Lisa Nandy quits X over fears Musk-owned site pushes ‘abuse and misinformation’
Culture secretary says her department will stop using platform, citing concerns over far-right content fuelling violence and division

Spridandet av påhitt och konspirationsteorier får härja fritt på sociala medier idag men minimal granskning och typ inga konsekvenser även om det skadar folk. Så det här kommer bli vanligare och vanligare.
"What stayed with me was not the diagnosis, but where it came from: a stream of health advice my training never taught me to watch for, trusted by my patient and invisible to me"

What Misinformation Looks Like in the ICU
The first failure is mine, the second failure is the patient's

I wrote an article about the connection between craft misinformation and non-mutual flourishing...and what to do about it.
https://www.nextworldnarrative.org/articles-2/how-to-effectively-do-myth-busting/

Indeed
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/28/still-on-x-ask-yourself-why-platform-twitter-malign-actors-misinformation?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

If you’re still on Elon Musk’s X, ask yourself this: why?
Some argue that quitting the platform formerly known as Twitter cedes the space to malign actors. But it’s an open sewer, beyond redemption, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

Foreign aid cuts are exacerbating the Ebola crisis : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/31/nx-s1-5839197/ebola-crisis-outbreak-misinformation-democratic-republic-congo-uganda

Hantavirus misinformation runs rampant as the US is unequipped to respond to infectious disease health scare (Melody Schreiber/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/08/hantavirus-global-heath-scare
http://www.memeorandum.com/260509/p17#a260509p17

UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy says she and her department will stop using X because the site favors "abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate" (Peter Walker/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jul/02/lis…

Lisa Nandy quits X over fears Musk-owned site pushes ‘abuse and misinformation’
Culture secretary says her department will stop using platform, citing concerns over far-right content fuelling violence and division

This is weird.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/maine-breach-portal-abused-to-publish-fake-data-breach-disclosures/

Maine breach portal abused to publish fake data breach disclosures
In an unusual misinformation campaign, fraudulent data breach disclosures were submitted to Maine's official breach portal and publicly posted before their legitimacy could be verified, prompting companies to deny the claims.

Joe Rogan used to just host our Fear Factors. Now he spreads dangerous fucking misinformation to millions of other fools

The Onion plans to lease Alex Jones’s Infowars after judge blocks purchase
The satirical website’s parent company will have to pay $81,000 a month to the misinformation platform
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/20/the-onion-alex-jones-infowars

The Onion plans to lease Alex Jones’s Infowars after judge blocks purchase
The satirical website’s parent company will have to pay $81,000 a month to the misinformation platform

I'd missed the "Whata Bod, Idaho" story in Jan, where the US National Weather Service used gen AI and it make up town names.
https://oecd.ai/en/incidents/2026-01-07-1ff3

AI-Generated Weather Maps Invent Fake Idaho Towns, Raising Trust Concerns
The U.S. National Weather Service used generative AI to create weather maps that included fictional town names in Idaho, such as "Whata Bod" and "Orangeotild." The incident, which led to public misinformation and eroded trust, highlights the risks of unsupervised AI in critical government communications. The errors were later corrected.

It’s been more than five years since the election,
the results already had been investigated multiple times,
and the ballots had been counted, recounted, and recounted again.
The lie that the 2020 election was stolen has persisted.
And the “Stop the Steal” movement’s most ardent believers now hold unprecedented positions of power,
including on the once-sleepy State Election Board in the important swing state of Georgia.
A lawyer known for his willingness …

Déjà vote: “Stop the Steal” never stopped
Election lies fuel an FBI raid and a push to rewrite voting laws as the 2026 midterms approach.

Electoral Commission says ministers should introduce clearer duties on AI platforms to protect voters against misinformation and ensure algorithms did not mislead voters, particularly during critical election periods. The problem is that AI platforms *can't do that*. LLMs can answer "what's the received wisdom about this programming topic?" because they've scraped all of Stack Overflow, but they don't *know* anything, especially not about news.

AI red teaming is not your father's red teaming. As models become agents that can take actions in the real world, red teams are now testing everything from prompt injections and misinformation to autonomous behavior and business-process failures.
Check out my latest CSO feature for more on this trend.
Many thanks to Microsoft's Ram Shankar Siva Kumar and Pete Bryan, Cisco's Tom Gillis, Palo Alto Networks' Ian Swanson, and HackerOne's Dane Sherrets for their…

AI red teaming comes of age
As enterprises rush to deploy copilots and autonomous agents, security teams are discovering that testing AI systems requires skills, tools, and assumptions that traditional red teaming was never designed to provide.

Brendan Carr says ABC is running a "campaign of misinformation" about the FCC inquiry into The View and the agency isn't trying to control the show's guests (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/fccs-ca

I have very harsh rules for muting people. Which is making it hard to find people to follow. Meh.
I mute: post screenshots of posts on other forums, non human accounts (bots and corporations), puzzle result posters, weather posters, americans who post stuff like their 10km2 on the planet is the only part of the planet, CVE posters, any politics, misinformation, people who post links with no context, people who use content warnings for things that don't need them, or have a larger…

For decades, the Soviet Union promoted the unorthodox views of Trofim Lysenko,
an agronomist who used his close ties to the political leadership to spread misinformation denying Mendelian genetics.
What followed was a disaster:
many years of poor harvests based on unsupported science and suppression of the teaching and practice of modern genetics throughout the Soviet bloc.
A similar threat now hangs over U.S. science.

"Sri Lankan ‘Grifters’ Pumping Out AI ‘Energy Policy Rage Bait’ on UK Facebook Feeds"
#SriLanka #Facebook #SocialMedia

Sri Lankan ‘Grifters’ Pumping Out AI ‘Energy Policy Rage Bait’ on UK Facebook Feeds Sri Lankan ‘Grifters’ Pumping Out AI ‘Energy Policy Rage Bait’ on UK Facebook Feeds
Experts say mass-produced AI misinformation is the “new Cambridge Analytica scandal”.

NewsGuard launches NewsGuard AI, a $6/month chatbot that accesses information from news sources it rates as reliable, promising publishers a 50-50 revenue share (Brian Stelter/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/06/22/media/newsguard-ai-chatbot-news-atlantic-publish…

This chatbot wants to solve AI’s news problem
AI chatbots are fast becoming a way people find news. But the systems are only as reliable as their sources, and are prone to misinformation and manipulation.