Hacker News with Generative AI: Disinformation

OpSec: Trump Dismantles Government Fight Against Foreign Influence Operations (nytimes.com)
The Trump administration is targeting government officials who had been flagging foreign interference in U.S. elections, despite continuing concerns that adversaries are stoking political and social divisions by spreading propaganda and disinformation online, current and former government officials said.

Politics, Government, Foreign Interference, Disinformation, Elections

18 points by DrNosferatu 1 day ago | 4 comments

AI Distortion is new threat to trusted information (bbc.co.uk)
Disinformation. By now we are all aware of its polarising effects and real world consequences.

Artificial Intelligence, Disinformation, Information Integrity

13 points by ChrisArchitect 11 days ago | 1 comments

Russian disinformation campaigns discover Bluesky (heise.de)
With the growing popularity of the Twitter alternative Bluesky, this network is also becoming increasingly interesting for disinformation campaigns. Currently, the pro-Russian influence operations "Doppelganger" and "Matryoshka" are apparently expanding their activities to Bluesky.

Disinformation, Social Media, Russia, Twitter Alternatives, Bluesky

7 points by doener 34 days ago | 0 comments

LA wildfires disinformation reveals limits of fact-checking (weaponizedspaces.substack.com)
Meta, formerly known as Facebook, announced last week that it is ending its fact-checking initiative and following in the footsteps of X (formerly Twitter) in implementing a community notes feature in place of professional fact-checkers.

Disinformation, Social Media, Fact-Checking, News

27 points by rbanffy 39 days ago | 35 comments

Substack Is at It Again (kottke.org)
Marisa Kabas correctly asserts that Substack’s latest announcement reaffirms their status as a publication (and not a platform) and as a place that will publish disinformation and hate under the guise of “free speech”.

Substack, Free Speech, Journalism, Disinformation

5 points by Tomte 66 days ago | 2 comments

Spain introduces bill to combat online fake news (theguardian.com)
Spain’s leftwing government has announced a bill extending a requirement to publish corrections to posts by digital platforms and social media influencers in an attempt to fight disinformation.

Spain, Legislation, Fake News, Social Media, Disinformation

5 points by isaacfrond 66 days ago | 4 comments

Russian Hackers Leverage ElevenLabs for Multilingual AI Disinformation Campaigns (winbuzzer.com)
Investigators have uncovered how ElevenLabs’ AI voice technology has been utilized in Operation Undercut, a Russian campaign aimed at destabilizing Western alliances.

AI, Disinformation, Cybersecurity, Russia, International Relations

6 points by Jasondells 73 days ago | 0 comments

Mind Bomb – How Russia wages an international war on truth (youtube.com)

Russia, Propaganda, International Relations, Information Warfare, Disinformation

5 points by jalict 78 days ago | 1 comments

MPs to summon Elon Musk to testify about X's role in UK summer riots (theguardian.com)
MPs are to summon Elon Musk to testify about X’s role in spreading disinformation, in a parliamentary inquiry into the UK riots and the rise of false and harmful AI content, the Guardian has learned.

Elon Musk, Disinformation, UK Riots, AI

5 points by 2OEH8eoCRo0 92 days ago | 0 comments

MPs to summon Elon Musk to testify about X's role in UK summer riots (theguardian.com)
MPs are to summon Elon Musk to testify about X’s role in spreading disinformation, in a parliamentary inquiry into the UK riots and the rise of false and harmful AI content, the Guardian has learned.

Social Media, Disinformation, UK Politics, Artificial Intelligence

7 points by peutetre 94 days ago | 0 comments

Brazil leads new international effort against climate lies at the G20 summit (theverge.com)
Brazil and the United Nations launched a new international effort to combat disinformation on climate change.

Climate Change, Disinformation, International Relations, Brazil

27 points by rntn 95 days ago | 22 comments

You're being targeted by disinformation networks (reddit.com)
You know that Russia and other governments try to manipulate people online. But you almost certainly don't how just how effectively orchestrated influence networks are using social media platforms to make you -- individually-- angry, depressed, and hateful toward each other.

Disinformation, Social Media, Russia, Political Manipulation, Online Influence

10 points by Raed667 100 days ago | 2 comments

Images of Spain's floods weren't made by AI. Trouble is, people think they were (theguardian.com)
My eye was caught by a striking photograph in the most recent edition of Charles Arthur’s Substack newsletter Social Warming. It shows a narrow street in the aftermath of the “rain bomb” that devastated the region of Valencia in Spain.

Disinformation, Spain, Floods, AI, Media

11 points by edward 103 days ago | 6 comments

Russian disinformation network is taking aim at US presidential election (cnn.com)

Disinformation, Politics, US Elections, Russia

8 points by rbanffy 109 days ago | 0 comments

Voting machine companies are fighting the next disinformation war (theverge.com)
Smartmatic and Dominion are trying to debunk false stories and rebuild trust — but that’s a tall order in 2024.

Election Integrity, Disinformation, Technology, Politics, Trust

14 points by rntn 112 days ago | 2 comments

Musk and Friends Are Smothering the Internet's Truth Seekers (bloomberg.com)
Not long after Hurricane Helene wrought destruction across the southern US, a more bewildering storm blew through: Officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) bumped up against angry residents and armed militia in Tennessee and North Carolina, people who’d been riled up by rumors that the officials were there to take their homes.

Social Media, Conspiracy Theories, Disinformation

22 points by srameshc 116 days ago | 1 comments

The Army of Election Officials Ready to Reject the Vote (nytimes.com)
A movement driven by disinformation about Trump’s 2020 defeat has taken over many of the boards that certify elections. It could cause chaos in the weeks ahead.

Elections, Politics, Misinformation, Disinformation, Democracy

18 points by ChrisArchitect 119 days ago | 3 comments

Russia amplified hurricane disinformation to drive Americans apart (abc7chicago.com)
Russia has helped amplify and spread false and misleading internet claims about recent hurricanes in the United States and the federal government's response, part of a wider effort by the Kremlin to manipulate America's political discourse before the presidential election, new research shows.

Disinformation, Russia, Politics, United States, Natural Disasters

105 points by wumeow 119 days ago | 64 comments

Putin's pro-Trump trolls accuse Harris of poaching rhinos (theregister.com)
Russian, Iranian, and Chinese trolls are all ramping up their US election disinformation efforts ahead of November 5, but – aside from undermining faith in the democratic process and confidence in the election result – with very different objectives, according to Microsoft.

Politics, Disinformation, Social Media, Russia, Elections

7 points by beardyw 120 days ago | 0 comments

Everything Is a Conspiracy Theory When You Don't Bother to Educate Yourself (techdirt.com)
I talk a lot about confirmation bias here because it’s at the heart of many of the debates and discussions regarding disinformation. It’s something we can all fall prey to, at times. But lately, I’ve been thinking a lot more about what makes one more susceptible to confirmation bias, and I’m increasingly coming around to the idea that it has to do with a combination of intellectual curiosity and trust.

Confirmation Bias, Disinformation, Education, Trust, Intellectual Curiosity

14 points by hn_acker 121 days ago | 3 comments

Leaked internal documents from a Kremlin-controlled propaganda center (vsquare.org)
Leaked internal documents from a Kremlin-controlled propaganda center reveal how a well-coordinated Russian campaign supported far-right parties in the European Parliament elections — and planted disinformation across social media platforms to undermine Ukraine.

Politics, Russia, Disinformation, Ukraine, Social Media

108 points by Anon84 158 days ago | 49 comments

GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar (hks.harvard.edu)
Academic journals, archives, and repositories are seeing an increasing number of questionable research papers clearly produced using generative AI. They are often created with widely available, general-purpose AI applications, most likely ChatGPT, and mimic scientific writing. Google Scholar easily locates and lists these questionable papers alongside reputable, quality-controlled research. Our analysis of a selection of questionable GPT-fabricated scientific papers found in Google Scholar shows that many are about applied, often controversial topics susceptible to disinformation: the environment, health, and computing. The resulting enhanced potential for malicious manipulation of society’s evidence base, particularly in politically divisive domains, is a growing concern.

Generative AI, Scientific Research, Disinformation, Academic Publishing, Google Scholar

213 points by celadevra_ 167 days ago | 99 comments

China is pushing divisive political messages online using fake U.S. voters (npr.org)

China, Politics, Disinformation, Social Media

35 points by ChumpGPT 170 days ago | 23 comments

Tenet Media said it's home to heterodox thinkers. DOJ says it's Kremlin funded (gizmodo.com)

Politics, Media, Russia, Disinformation

39 points by rntn 170 days ago | 20 comments

Right-Wing Network Tenet Media Allegedly Spread Russian Disinformation (wired.com)

Right-Wing Media, Disinformation, Russia, Politics, Media

12 points by hn1986 170 days ago | 1 comments

US conservative influencers 'victims' of Russian disinformation campaign (theguardian.com)