Hacker News with Generative AI: Information Warfare

Report on Russian efforts to flood LLM/AI models with pro-Russian content (americansunlight.org)
It may be tempting to consider Russian influence campaigns in the United States and other democratic countries as merely an afterthought, given the chaos and uncertainty that Donald Trump’s second presidency is causing. But his reelection–and the growing influence of Russia-friendly, far right parties worldwide–only makes these campaigns more relevant.
Influence by Design: How Meta Accepted Russian Payments Despite Sanctions (checkfirst.network)
Titled Influence by Design: Doppelgänger, Sanctions, Meta, and the Social Design Agency (SDA), the report sheds light on how Meta’s advertising infrastructure was used to run over 8,000 political ads aligned with Russian interests, even after international sanctions targeted the responsible entity: the Social Design Agency (SDA). This highlights Meta’s shortcomings at moderating paid-for content.
Weaponizing Wikipedia Against Israel (aish.com)
How the global information pipeline is being hijacked by digital jihadists.
Mind Bomb – How Russia wages an international war on truth (youtube.com)
State-Sponsored Russian Media Software for Malign Influence Activity [pdf] (ic3.gov)