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Like practically all far-right parties, Reform UK want to stop climate action. Perfectly aligned with fossil fuel interests, and could well be related to their murky financing.
Reform’s Tice accused of misinformation after urging people to enjoy heatwaves
https://www.

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…

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…

“Major COVID study that fueled vaccine skepticism retracted over ‘misinformation’”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/major-covid-study-that-fueled-vaccine-skepticism-retracted-over-misinformation/…

Major COVID study that fueled vaccine skepticism retracted over ‘misinformation’
This study was originally published in 2024 and was criticized as being misleading by other scientists at the time

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/

Q&A with Dave Jorgenson on running LNI as a business a year after leaving WaPo, fighting misinformation with humor, hitting 400K YouTube subscribers, and more (Susie Banikarim/Columbia Journalism Review)
https:/…

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.

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

MIT launches the LLM Election Observatory, a dashboard tracking how nearly a dozen AI models tailor responses to political queries during the 2026 US midterms (Tiffany Hsu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes…

Voters Are Asking A.I. About Elections. The Answers Can Vary by User.
Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming a go-to stop for voters looking for information about political races. Researchers are studying the effects.

AskQENDO
Through honest conversations with experts, advocates and change-makers, we myth-bust misinformation, break stigma and answer real questions about endometriosis, adenomyosis and pelvic pain...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/askqen

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

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

Youtube Studio mailed me the latest statistics re my Youtube channel. Very few people watch a video the whole way through. But the mail had suggestions for new videos that I might make. They are ghastly AI slop, made of words from my videos, strung together with ZERO understanding. YUK
It's no wonder that there is so much misinformation on Youtube -they invite it!

California AG Rob Bonta says AGs' antitrust case is on antitrust grounds, not politics, and Paramount is "spearheading" a PR campaign to spin a false narrative (Rob Bonta/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/08/rob-bonta-up-ed-david-e…

Don’t Believe Paramount’s Hype: California AG Rob Bonta Claims Ellison Muddying WBD Merger Waters With Misinformation & Side Deals; “We Intend To Win” – Guest Column
In a guest column for Deadline, California Attorney General Rob Bonta says Paramount CEO David Ellison is running a misinformation campaign and side deals.

When Shannon Rosa hears about cuts to Medicaid and misinformation from the Trump administration about disabled people and their families, her predominant feeling isn’t fear or sadness.
It’s fury.
“They don’t have any idea what they’re talking about,” she said.
“I think they are very successful men who have never in their lives had to even consider what invisible labor looks like.
They have no idea. They don’t know anything.”
The Trump administration announced la…

‘Just cruel’: Medicaid halt in California and Minnesota plunges caregivers and disabled people into uncertainty
Shock and fury as Trump administration holds back Medicaid funding to states over alleged caregiving fraud

"Reform’s Tice accused of misinformation after urging people to enjoy heatwaves"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Heatwave

Reform’s Tice accused of misinformation after urging people to enjoy heatwaves
Backlash from nurses, medical experts and green campaigners in response to deputy leader dismissing efforts to reach net zero

"By introducing an AI image generator as a Google Earth feature, Google risked undermining public trust in Google Earth as a reliable reference for providing authentic imagery of the real world, Ess said. It could have also handed an additional excuse to government officials or anyone who wants to deny genuine satellite photos by claiming they were modified or generated entirely by AI tools."
#GoogleEarth

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

Today we’re talking about California’s Proposition 39,
a bid to turn Trump’s election conspiracy fantasies into California law,
and a proposal so disingenuous it’s caused Democratic legislators to sue the Democratic secretary of state in an attempt to stop the misinformation surrounding it.
As these lawsuits move forward and the November election rolls closer, we’re going to hear a lot about Proposition 39
— a measure that would require
in-person voters to pres…

Prop. 39 would turn Trump conspiracy into California law.
A legal fight has broken out around Proposition 39, a proposal to require voters to prove their citizenship at polls with ID. It's a partisan attempt to recycle the election conspiracy lies of President Donald Trump into California law -- and it has a chance of passing.

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.
#EotS
#YCC

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.

1/6
#MathsMonday
This week I'm kicking off a new #HallOfShame series, about spreaders of #disinformation

I recommend blocking shells.com in your search results and or DNS for misinformation in AI generated tutorials, here are two examples I found with hallucinationed installation steps that would damage your NixOS install if run
https://kb.shells.com/tutorials/nixOS_Latest/Go_IPFS/

There are problems for which we know the solutions - and we have evidence that the solutions work. And bad air quality is an example:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/23/london-low-emissio…

London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air?
Similar initiatives have been launched from Barcelona to Bogotá, but they have misinformation, political pressure and vested interests stacked against them

There are problems for which we know the solutions - and we have evidence that the solutions work. And bad air quality is an example:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/23/london-low-emissio…

London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air?
Similar initiatives have been launched from Barcelona to Bogotá, but they have misinformation, political pressure and vested interests stacked against them

Diary of a CEO Spreads Dangerous Health Misinformation. And They Know It https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2bFpays_ik

RFK Jr. targets Fauci and pushes medical misinformation in fiery CNN interview (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/02/politics/rfk-jr-fauci-medical-misinformation
http://www.memeorandum.com/260802/p45#a260802p45

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…

Though Google's SynthID tech for watermarking AI images is hard to break, there will always be ways to create AI-generated content without any labeling (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/tested…

Google's SynthID watermark is hard to break, but it doesn't solve AI misinformation
Deciding what's real on the Internet won't be easy in the future.

Confirmation Bias: https://eyebee.substack.com/p/confirmation-bias?r=jiw37&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Confirmation Bias
Over-exposure to mostly uncertified misinformation

"London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air?"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #London

London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air?
Similar initiatives have been launched from Barcelona to Bogotá, but they have misinformation, political pressure and vested interests stacked against them

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

With the midterms just months away, citizens are bombarded with misinformation about the safety of our elections and voting.
The most powerful response to confusion and intimidation is participation.
Don’t sit it out.
Show up and vote
https://

OpenAI bans a cluster of Russian ChatGPT accounts that used VPNs to evade restrictions and run an influence operation, including creating social media comments (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/25/openai-russia-chatgpt-influence-campaign.html…

OpenAI bans Russian ChatGPT accounts used in covert misinformation campaign
The AI company said the incident "illustrates how influence actors can use AI as a supporting tool within a broader effort to manufacture authority."

"Climate doom may discourage climate action, but there’s a way to counter it"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Climate doom may discourage climate action, but there’s a way to counter it
One way to guard against misinformation is to empower people to identify climate doom in the first place.

Algorithmicly generated answers,
which pull from various sources online,
have quickly become one of the biggest sources of misinformation on the entire internet.
Google’s AI models are frequently caught hallucinating easily disproven facts,
handing out dangerous “health” advice
— and gutting the media industry by discouraging users from visiting publications’ sites

Google AI Giving Staggeringly Racist "Advice" About Being Alone With Certain Groups of People
Google's AI Overviews feature is showing overtly racist responses about being alone with certain groups of people.

Vaccine misinformation spreads as RFK Jr suggests two measles deaths were 'fabricated' (Melody Schreiber/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/28/vaccine-misinformation-rfk-jr-measles-deaths-pennsylvania
http://www.memeorandum.com/260828/p40#a260828p40

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.

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.

Fired '60 Minutes' journalist says she was pressured to report on events that 'never happened' (Sydney Carruth/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/news/fired-60-minutes-journalist-says-she-was-pressured-to-report-misinformation-political-bias
http://www.memeorandum.com/260725/p59#a260725p59

"Reform’s Tice accused of misinformation after urging people to enjoy heatwaves"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange

Reform’s Tice accused of misinformation after urging people to enjoy heatwaves
Backlash from nurses, medical experts and green campaigners in response to deputy leader dismissing efforts to reach net zero

Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Infostealers hijack Claude accounts and drain users’ usage,
--FulcrumSec claims Manchester airports breaches,
--Rhysida auctions Berlin government data,
--Bank of England warns of frontier AI risks,
--DIA insider admits attempted espionage,
--IPTV pirate gets six years in prison,
--ATM encryption flaws expose supply chain risks,
--Romance scammers flock to Microsoft Teams,
--ShinyHunters claims massive McKesson breach,
--Critical GiveWP flaw enables server takeover,
--Secret AI swarms hacked Hugging Face,
--Hugging Face attack raises AI takeover fears,
--Microsoft says ignore false Defender warnings,
--Moonwell exploit drains $8.7m,
--Cosmos misjudgment enables $5.7m theft,
--Falcon claims massive Globus Medical breach,
--12 TB Valve leak exposes unreleased games,
--GS Retail fined $9.3m over breach,
--Pro-Russian hackers declare cyberwar on Norway,
--MyChart phishing scams target patients,
--NCSC warns of exposed industrial systems,
--Chatbots outperform search against propaganda,
--Texas halts funding for Flock cameras,
--Flock shares camera data with 2,000 organizations,
--Pentagon quietly installs pro-Hegseth misinformation spinners
https://www.metacurity.com/infostealers-hijack-claude-accounts-and-drain-users-usage/

So sad and the money in the alternative medicine grifts driving the worst of the anti-vax misinformation is so damning.
#utpol #Utah #measles #vaccines
https://www.kuer.org/health/2026-07-24/what-it-was-like-for-6-pediatricians-on-the-front-lines-of-utahs-measles-outbreak