#disinformation is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 176 people shared 363 posts with it — around 12 a day. Activity is up 0% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 27 with 28 posts.
Tags most often used together with #disinformation.
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A dozen anti-vaccine accounts are responsible for 65% of disinformation shared online, new report finds
The "Disinformation Dozen" remain on social media platforms despite violating their terms of service.
www.theguardian.com
Why US and Russia are backing Viktor Orbán in Hungary election
As voters head to polls, Washington support and alleged interference from Moscow raise questions about influence
www.cbc.ca
Carney pledges $150M boost to 'underfunded' CBC | CBC News
Liberal Leader Mark Carney said on Friday that his government would provide an initial $150-million annual funding increase to CBC and Radio-Canada as part of a new mandate for the public broadcaster.
www.desmog.com
AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial
At the start of June, MSN, the world’s fourth-largest news aggregator, posted an article from a new climate-focused publication, Climate Cosmos, entitled: “Why Top Experts Are Rethinking Climate Alarm...
apnews.com
Foreign disinformation about Charlie Kirk's killing seeks to widen US divisions
Russia moved quickly to exploit conservative activist Charlie Kirk's shooting death at a Utah college, with groups linked to the Kremlin spreading false and misleading claims that experts say are desi...
www.theguardian.com
Russia-linked accounts spread far-right narrative online during Ceuta migration crisis, analysis finds
Counter-disinformation group says social media channels connected to Pravda network helped amplify message
www.theguardian.com
Russia-linked accounts spread far-right narrative online during Ceuta migration crisis, analysis finds
Counter-disinformation group says social media channels connected to Pravda network helped amplify message
theconversation.com
AI is making disinformation harder to spot - but we've found a new way to catch it
Do you ever see comments on social media that seem way off topic, but still manage to wrench the discussion around to divisive political debate? A discussion about the cost of living suddenly becomes an argument about immigration. A conversation about the war in Ukraine turns into claims about government corruption. It can feel jarring – and sometimes this is deliberate. As generative AI becomes more powerful, malicious groups are increasingly using it to produce and spread disinformation online. Automated accounts can flood social media with convincing comments designed to sow division, inflame political debate and undermine trust in reliable information. But our latest research offers a way to spot these attempts. Rather than trying to identify whether a post was written by AI, we focus on something different: whether it’s trying to derail the conversation. Until recently, identifying malicious accounts was often quite straightforward. Many campaigns relied on people writing in a second language. So, posts sometimes contained grammatical mistakes or unusual word choices. Detection systems could look for these patterns in the language used. But generative AI has changed that. AI systems can now produce fluent, natural-sounding text that is much harder to distinguish from human writing. For...
stratheia.com
AI-Generated Disinformation as a Security Challenge for Pakistan - Stratheia
How AI-generated disinformation and deepfakes are reshaping information warfare and challenging Pakistan's national security.
JMIR Publications @jmirpub.bsky.social
What happens when misinformation research itself becomes politicized? A new News & Perspectives article argues that studying online misinformation is no longer just a scientific challenge—it’s a public health and democratic one. Read: https://www.jmir.org/2026/1/e104526
fedifreu.de
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open.substack.com
Fox News: Dr. Fauci's Diary Will Not Make the Iran War Go Away
A condensed overview of 27 hours of Fox News for the week ending 8/2/26
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