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Michiel van Hulten @michielvanhulten.eu · 09/09/2026

Major new report from @reset.tech out today, authored by @allxbo.bsky.social: Monetized Slopaganda. Social media monetization programs are incentivizing a new industry of AI-generated political clickbait, targeting audiences in Europe and globally. Full report here: www.reset.tech/resources/mo...

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EU DisinfoLab @disinfo.eu · 26/03/2025

🚨 𝑳𝑨𝑺𝑻 𝑪𝑨𝑳𝑳! 🚨 Curious about how Meta & Google keep failing to stop fake medicine ads? Join us tomorrow at 14:30 CET for a deep dive with @allxbo.bsky.social from @reset.tech on clickbait cures! Sign up here! 👇 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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CORRECTIV @correctiv.org · 23/01/2025

Russland greift in den #Bundestagswahlkampf ein: Wir haben mehr als 100 Fake-Nachrichtenseiten der Einflusskampagne Storm-1516 aufgedeckt. In mehreren Fällen wurden sie bereits für Attacken auf Politiker genutzt. Was wir herausgefunden haben 👇 (1/4) correctiv.org/faktencheck/...

correctiv.org

Einflussoperation enttarnt: Russland greift in deutschen Wahlkampf ein

CORRECTIV hat rund 100 Fake-Nachrichtenseiten enttarnt. Ihr Zweck: die Bundestagswahl mit Desinformation beeinflussen.

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CheckFirst @checkfirst.network · 29/10/2024

🗣️ "The goal of Operation Overload is to use you, the fact-checkers, to amplify their narrative." Today our CTO Amaury was in Brussels for the inaugural #EFCSNConference. He spoke to the fact-checking community about Operation Overload ( 🔎 checkfirst.network/operation-ov...).

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Conspirador Norteño @conspirator0.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

On and on and on and on it goes...

screenshots of 8 Amazon "authors" with GAN-generated faces

screenshots of 9 Amazon "authors" with GAN-generated faces

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EU DisinfoLab @disinfo.eu · 01/02/2024

Kicking off our 2024 webinars!💥 🗓️ Tuesday 6 February 🕝 14:30 CET 💡 Off-Shor Disinformation: The pro-Russian Facebook ad campaign disrupting Moldova’s EU accession 🦸 Aleksandra Atanasova, RESET & @aa.disinfo.eu, EU DisinfoLab Sign up here⬇️ us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Conspirador Norteño @conspirator0.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

None of these people exist, but you can buy their books on Amazon anyway. Here's an article on Amazon authors with GAN-generated faces and the books these authors publish (which appear to be almost entirely devoid of original human-created content). conspirator0.substack.com/p/none-of-th...

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None of these people exist, but you can buy their books on Amazon anyway

Once you find one author with an AI-generated face and potential AI-generated books, Amazon will helpfully direct you to more

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Conspirador Norteño @conspirator0.bsky.social · 21/01/2024

Cryptocurrency/NFT spam from blue check accounts has become a recurring theme of advertising on X/Twitter in recent months. I kept track of the crypto spam ads I was served over the course of two days and did some analysis of the accounts involved. conspirator0.substack.com/p/blue-check...

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Blue checks, ads, and crypto spam

Verified accounts on social media platform X are running paid ads for cryptocurrency/NFT projects of dubious legitimacy

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CheckFirst @checkfirst.network · 15/01/2024

Over 100 deep-fake ads of UK PM Rishi Sunak discovered on Meta's platform... Sounds familiar no? We released the Facebook Hustles investigation 6 months ago already 🫠

theguardian.com

Slew of deepfake video adverts of Sunak on Facebook raises alarm over AI risk to election

Research finds more than 100 paid ads impersonating PM were promoted on social media platform in last month

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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 11/01/2024

Die Reaktionen der AfD-Fans auf die Enthüllungen der AfD-Geheimpläne, auch deutsche Bürger millionenfach zu deportieren, sind entlarvend. Einige leugnen alles & schimpfen auf Staat & Medien Andere bestätigen es komplett und sehnen sich danach. Viele schaffen es sogar, beides gleichzeitig zu tun.

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Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

In 1964, Bill McGuire wrote a seminal chapter on inoculation theory. Now, 60 years later I had the honor to write another. Here's everything we've found & have to say about inoculation against misinformation, including recent critiques & my response! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

A vast, covert Russian influence operation on TikTok involving 12,800 fake accounts spreading disinformation about the war in Ukraine to millions of users in Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Israel and Ukraine, has been uncovered by BBC Verify and @dfrlab.bsky.social.

bbc.co.uk

Ukraine war: How TikTok fakes pushed Russian lies to millions

The BBC uncovers a vast Russia-based network of fake TikTok accounts pushing disinformation about Ukraine.

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Hervé Letoqueux @herve.checkfirst.network · 13/12/2023

Interviews de personnalités françaises commandées depuis Moscou, entreprises privées russes et réseaux de bots achetés sur le marché noir… Les campagnes d’ingérence en ligne entretiennent un flou artistique autour de leurs commanditaires. Via @plntn.bsky.social

lemonde.fr

Derrière l’influence numérique russe, un système de sous-traitance généralisée

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CheckFirst @checkfirst.network · 11/12/2023

✨📚 CheckFirst and AI Forensics present an eye-opening study, "The Amazing Library". We expose the harms of Amazon's algorithms, spanning from promoting anti-vaccine content to suggesting sexually explicit books on teenager books’ pages. checkfirst.network/the-amazing-...

checkfirst.network

Amazon’s Risky Recommendations - CheckFirst

In a landmark research collaboration, CheckFirst and AI Forensics publish a comprehensive study examining the intricate facets of Amazon's recommendation algorithm, unveiling concerning content amplif...

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Guillaume Kuster @gkuster.com · 11/12/2023

When Amazon book stores recommended anti-vaccination, harmful content and let users access pornographic content without control. Our latest study together with @aiforensics.bsky.social is up (and Le Monde read it) www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...

lemonde.fr

Dans la librairie d’Amazon, « les algorithmes façonnent les ventes, mais aussi le discours publ...

Dans une étude parue lundi, AI Forensics et Check First mettent en lumière la façon dont Amazon surexpose des ouvrages trompeurs ou controversés dans ses rayons en lignes.

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Aleksandra @allxbo.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

non, reste ici, c'est fou interessant hah. mais j'ai aucune intuition pour les quiz :D

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Aleksandra @allxbo.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

The celebrity quote campaign that Reset exposed last month continues to run unhinged on Facebook with a slight change of tactics. The ads now literally put words in famous people's mouths by promoting footage of actual interviews w/ fake audio dubbed on top via text-to-speech apps.

wired.com

A Kremlin-Linked Network Used Fake Taylor Swift Quotes to Push Anti-Ukraine Propaganda

A disinformation campaign led by a group linked to Russia's GRU is using images of celebrities like Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Kim Kardashian, Justin Bieber, and Oprah to lambast Ukraine.

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Aleksandra @allxbo.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

Those tactics appear to be working to outmanoeuvre Meta’s detection capabilities: some ads reached tens and even hundreds of thousands of users before being removed. 30% of the identified advertisers (172 pages) have not been deplatformed and their ads continue to run without removal to this day

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Aleksandra @allxbo.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

In comparison to other campaigns where individual advertisers launch multiple ads, each quote card meme was launched by a SINGLE page, after which the page stopped advertising altogether. This could be a complementary tactic to reduce the traceability of the assets involved in the campaign.

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Aleksandra @allxbo.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

To mislead the platform’s automated systems for content moderation, the quotes were placed directly on the visuals and the ads featured no copy or external links. Some used outright keyword obfuscation tactics: one ad replaced the word “Zelensky” with “Ze-nsky” to avoid automated keyword detection.

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Aleksandra @allxbo.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

The ads exploit loopholes in Meta’s ad verification and content moderation systems. We noticed a change of tactics used by the advertisers to make the campaign less detectable by Meta’s algorithms.

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Aleksandra @allxbo.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

While we have not been able to attribute the campaign to a specific actor, similar massive networks of advertisers have run political advertising connected with Doppelganger/RRN operation before. The total scope of the two discovered networks includes +70,000 pages.

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Aleksandra @allxbo.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

Reset identified 552 ads targeting 7.6 million users in Germany and France between 6-17 November. Anonymous pages belonging to two massive automatically created networks have been involved in the promotion of these ads.

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Aleksandra @allxbo.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

This overtly political campaign crafts absurd quote cards putting all sorts of crazy statements in the mouths of big-shot US celebs, incl. Shakira, Lady Gaga, Selena Gomez, Oprah Winfrey, Jennifer Lopez and + 20 more.

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Aleksandra @allxbo.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

No more red-carpet treatment for Ukrainians! Apparently Hollywood hates them now, according to a naively conceptualised but heavily sponsored Facebook campaign. Reset discovered some fun facts about the advertisers 🧵

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Alexandre Alaphilippe @aa.disinfo.eu · 31/10/2023

Allez hop, je vous emmerde encore avec mon sujet préféré du momen: l'opération Doppelganger/RRN. Hier, le média indépendant russe The Insider a publié une enquête basée sur les analyses de Bot4Navalny, révélant que l'opération continue, mais sous d'autres formes. On 🤿 ! theins.ru/en/news/266351

theins.ru

Russia's disinformation campaign targets Ukraine with fake Der Spiegel, Fox News, and RBC websi...

A flood of spam content has recently emerged on the social network X (previously Twitter), promoting the idea that Ukrainians should call for a ceasefire with Russia. The spam materials are being shar...

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Hervé Letoqueux @herve.checkfirst.network · 30/10/2023

Viginum, service technique et opérationnel de l’État chargé de la vigilance et de la protection contre les ingérences numériques étrangères, recrute des analystes OSINT/géopolitique. #job Analyste OSINT / Investigation H/F - VIGINUM Offres d'emploi et stage - VIGINUM (welcometothejungle.com)

welcometothejungle.com

Welcome to the Jungle—Work with the tribe you belong to

Welcome to the Jungle is the guide that walks you through your job-search: find out what it's like to work for today's top companies and find the best content to thrive in your career

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Flef @flefgraph.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

La cartographie du Bluesky Francophone :) Un peu plus de 54k comptes cartographiés (~60% des nombres fr totaux). Version zoomable avec les noms des presque 2k personnes qui me l'ont demandé : shorturl.at/mAL02 Pas eu le temps de faire une version interactive. On fera si c'est vraiment crucial :)

Cartographie du bluesky francophone avec 9 communautés :
Informatique, Science/Santé, Quebec, Droit, Humour, LGBT, Journaliste, Féministe/Artiste, Jeu video

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Hervé Letoqueux @herve.checkfirst.network · 26/10/2023

242.000 fausses pages facebook identifiées par Reset pour promouvoir de la désinformation prorusse et des arnaques. www.reset.tech/resources/va... Avec des liens avec la campagne RRN exposée par Viginum en juin 2023. www.sgdsn.gouv.fr/publications...

reset.tech

Vast Networks of Fake Accounts Raise Questions About Meta’s Compliance with the EU's DSA – Reset

Reset documented the existence of several massive networks consisting of hundreds of thousands of inauthentic Facebook pages. The mere scope of the networks and the common characteristics of their i...

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Alexandre Alaphilippe @aa.disinfo.eu · 27/10/2023

Un petit 🧵 pour ceux qui suivent l’opération informationnelle Russe nommée Doppelganger/RRN. Reset a révélé en début de semaine avoir identifié deux réseaux automatisés de pages Facebook liés à l’opération. Préparez-vous, les chiffres sont "zinzins". www.reset.tech/documents/24...

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