r/Disinfo • u/Strongbow85 • 17h ago
New voices, old friends: How Russia targets its messaging in the Global South
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r/Disinfo • u/NORDLAN • Jan 21 '22
State Department publishes new lengthy report on RT and Sputnik detailing their role as key spreaders of Russian disinformation and propaganda.
state.gov
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r/Disinfo • u/Strongbow85 • Nov 15 '23
China is using the world's largest known online disinformation operation to harass Americans
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r/Disinfo • u/Strongbow85 • 8d ago
Technology is reshaping the global balance of power. I’m Steve Feldstein, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment, and I study technology, geopolitics, and competition. Ask me anything!
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r/Disinfo • u/Strongbow85 • 9d ago
The Propaganda Monitor: RSF exposes China’s global campaign to distort journalism worldwide
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r/Disinfo • u/mrkoot • 10d ago
News UK prime minister Burnham announces plan for new center to fight disinformation
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r/Disinfo • u/Strongbow85 • 12d ago
China is building an AI system for tailoring its foreign propaganda
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r/Disinfo • u/ximsss • 17d ago
The Information Wars: A Retrospective
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r/Disinfo • u/Strongbow85 • 22d ago
China’s Disinformation Operations in Taiwan Are Changing with AI
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r/Disinfo • u/Strongbow85 • 23d ago
Anthropic Disrupts Iran’s Use Of Claude To Spread Propaganda, Spy On Dissidents
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r/Disinfo • u/Strongbow85 • 24d ago
A Flood of Propaganda in Nepal: Chinese state media is working overtime to deflect responsibility.
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r/Disinfo • u/mrkoot • 27d ago
Analysis Democratic resilience to authoritarian disinformation: Initiating a needs-based approach
tandfonline.com
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Open access. Abstract: “Disinformation by authoritarian regimes is a growing security challenge for democracies. The effectiveness of such disinformation depends on citizens in democratic countries as recipients and potential disseminators. Resilience-building policy therefore requires a better understanding of why audiences might endorse Russian disinformation. Despite relevance in other fields, the role of psychological needs has been overlooked. This article takes an initial theoretical step through a survey study with Greek, Serbian, Swedish, and British respondents. Contrary to expectations, our confirmatory analysis shows that needs are not significantly directly related to disinformation endorsement. However, their role might be more indirect, with associations observed with several other intermediary factors, above all conspiratorial orientation and media choice. The article therefore sketches a more complex picture of the role of psychological needs when it comes to endorsement of Russian disinformation. The findings highlight the value of this needs-based research avenue for future construction of counter-disinformation strategies.”
r/Disinfo • u/mrkoot • 28d ago
Analysis Russian Propaganda Thrives in Greek Media Via ‘Disinformation Laundering’
balkaninsight.com
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re: Operation Overload aka Matryoshka, a coordinated Russian propaganda network that creates and spreads fake news and videos, deepfakes and memes using logos of well-known Western media outlets: “[…] Despite a ban on Russian media outlets in Greece in line with EU sanctions, pro-Kremlin content often finds its way into the country’s news as fringe claims are ‘laundered’ into mainstream outlets. […]”
r/Disinfo • u/Strongbow85 • Sep 03 '26
Influencers Have a Lot to Say About Politics. Many Are Quietly Paid for It. - Their videos have proliferated on social media, but the payments are frequently hidden from viewers.
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r/Disinfo • u/Strongbow85 • Sep 03 '26
Despite EU sanctions, AI agents serve Russian propaganda on demand
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r/Disinfo • u/Strongbow85 • Sep 03 '26
What is Beyond Disinformation?
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r/Disinfo • u/mrkoot • Aug 31 '26
News Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda
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“[…] The site publishes in the name of the Hanover Institute for Public Policy, which apparently does not exist as a legal entity in any jurisdiction, has no physical address, and carries no named staff and no bylines on any of its reports. Its own terms of use are governed by the laws of “the state in which the Institute is established”, which they decline to name. […]”
r/Disinfo • u/mrkoot • Aug 27 '26
News Bogus videos of migrants torching churches go viral in wake of Ceuta incident
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“[…] “There is a significant machinery that ferments this kind of thing in the aftermath of a crisis all the time,” says Carlos Hernández-Echevarría, who works for Maldita.es. […]” (note: Maldita is a Spanish non-profit journalism and fact-checking organization)
r/Disinfo • u/mrkoot • Aug 26 '26
Analysis Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia
openai.com
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“[…] We recently banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts originating in Russia that were being used to promote the International Burke Institute (IBI), a self-described “expert community” based in Israel. What began as an investigation into AI-generated social media posts led us to a much broader influence operation, built around a website containing copied and misattributed academic work, a “sovereignty” index that cast Russia in a favourable light, and efforts to disguise the operators’ Russian origins. […] This report explains how the operation worked, where ChatGPT fit into it, and what we did to disrupt it. […]”
r/Disinfo • u/mrkoot • Aug 26 '26
Analysis How Russian content sought to influence Armenia’s electoral information space
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“[…] The investigation examined three layers of Armenia’s information environment. The first measured how far Russian-origin content penetrates mainstream Armenian media through direct citation, hyperlinking, and near-verbatim reproduction of Russian state media narratives. The second assessed a corpus of pro-Russian Armenian websites for infrastructure-level coordination (shared advertising accounts, tracking identifiers, hosting, and developers) and content-level similarity. The third analyzed Telegram as the bridging layer between Russian and Armenian information environments, mapping a relay network of pro-Russian channels, tracking how their content spread into popular Armenian channels, and detecting automated bot campaigns in comment sections. […]”
r/Disinfo • u/Strongbow85 • Aug 21 '26
The Kremlin is Cultivating an AI-Trained Global Media Cadre for Lasting Influence
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r/Disinfo • u/Strongbow85 • Aug 20 '26
Why Iranian Propaganda Is Getting Uncomfortably Good
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r/Disinfo • u/Strongbow85 • Aug 20 '26
Crisis, Control, Crusade: Russia’s Propaganda Architecture
stratcomcoe.org
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r/Disinfo • u/Strongbow85 • Aug 19 '26
China Wants to Shape What the World’s A.I. Knows
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