Dutch researchers have revealed that coordinated networks of accounts spreading disinformation flooded social media in France, Germany and Italy before the elections to the European Parliament.
A new study by the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) has identified four important steps in mitigating digital threats to elections.
A new report has uncovered how 41 TikTok accounts are using AI-generated narration to disseminate political misinformation at scale.
The United States has uncovered an AI-powered information operation run from Russia involving about 1,000 accounts posing as Americans.
NewsGuard said it has identified over 900 Unreliable AI-generated news and information websites labeled "UAINS".
The fake Cruise video, which appeared on the Telegram messaging platform last year, is called Olympics Has Fallen and uses artificial intelligence-generated audio of the film star's voice to present a 'strange, meandering script' disparaging the IOC. The documentary, whose title riffs on the Gerard Butler action film Olympus Has Fallen, also claims falsely to have been produced by Netflix and is promoted with bogus five-star reviews from the New York Times and the BBC.
The legislation in Ukraine regulating the use of the Ukrainian language does not apply to personal communication or religion, and does not provide for any criminal liability for violations of its norms, "language patrols" or "language inspectors", as propaganda claims. Ukrainians themselves do not see any harassment of Russian-speaking Ukrainians, as evidenced by the results of opinion polls.
Recent months have seen a spike in disinformation about NATO and Ukraine's allies on social media, following French President Emmanuel Macron's comments on sending Western ground troops to fight in Ukraine. We tell you more in this edition of Truth or Fake.
As the war between Russia and Ukraine continues, claims that China has threatened the US and Nato are false.
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