Hacker News with Generative AI: Information Warfare

Firehose of Falsehood (wikipedia.org)
The firehose of falsehood, also known as firehosing, is a propaganda technique in which a large number of messages are broadcast rapidly, repetitively, and continuously over multiple channels (like news and social media) without regard for truth or consistency.
Propaganda, Disinformation, Social Media, Communication, Information Warfare
11 points by titaphraz 8 days ago | 0 comments
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.
Russia, Artificial Intelligence, Politics, Propaganda, Information Warfare
10 points by avs733 57 days ago | 3 comments
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.
Social Media, Political Advertising, Sanctions, Russia, Information Warfare
5 points by amaury 99 days ago | 0 comments
Weaponizing Wikipedia Against Israel (aish.com)
How the global information pipeline is being hijacked by digital jihadists.
Israel, Politics, Information Warfare, Propaganda, Social Media
12 points by xpl 99 days ago | 6 comments
Mind Bomb – How Russia wages an international war on truth (youtube.com)
Russia, Propaganda, International Relations, Information Warfare, Disinformation
5 points by jalict 141 days ago | 1 comments
State-Sponsored Russian Media Software for Malign Influence Activity [pdf] (ic3.gov)
Cybersecurity, Russia, Propaganda, Government, Information Warfare
5 points by fodmap 289 days ago | 1 comments