Tag: disinformation
You Think You Know How Misinformation Spreads? Welcome to the Hellhole...
Disclosure: Longtime journalist Steven Brill is the founder or cofounder of a number of publications and companies, including NewsGuard, where he is the co-CEO...
Trump’s Online MAGA Army Calls Guilty Verdict a Declaration of War
The words âRIP Americaâ trended on X minutes after a jury in Manhattan found former president Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts...
Foreign Influence Campaigns Don’t Know How to Use AI Yet Either
Today, OpenAI released its first threat report, detailing how actors from Russia, Iran, China, and Israel have attempted to use its technology for foreign...
How AI Is Impacting the 2024 Elections
In India and Indonesia, dead leaders are rising to throw their support behind their political successors; rapper Eminem is endorsing opposition parties in South...
Russian Disinfo Campaign Blames Ukraine for Shooting of Slovakia’s Prime Minister
Russia Today’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan went further in a comment on her Telegram channel, blaming Ukraine for the attack: “The Slovak Prime Minister is...
The US Election Threats Are Clear. What to Do About Them...
On Wednesday, members of the US Senate Intelligence Committee questioned senior national security officials on how they plan to respond to attacks on voting...
A Russian Influence Campaign Is Exploiting College Campus Protests
X did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment.The posts did not receive a huge amount of engagement, but unlike China’s disinformation campaigns, some...
The Answer to Election Deniers Is in an Idaho County Website
“It's very different if is coming from an independent group, like True the Vote, that obviously has certain political leanings, and information that...
Why China Is So Bad at Disinformation
The headlines sounded dire: “China Will Use AI to Disrupt Elections in the US, South Korea and India, Microsoft Warns.” Another claimed, “China...
RFK Jr.’s Very Online, Conspiracy-Filled Campaign
Leah Feiger: Well, Eric ClaptonâAnna Merlan: It makes sense.Leah Feiger: It's so sad.Makena Kelly: But Eric Clapton had a huge fundraiser. He's able...