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@andrewbuzzell.bsky.social
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@uwo postdoc. social epistemology/technology/ethics

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andrew buzzell @andrewbuzzell.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
If we are worried about influence and manipulation, could the new TikTok deal help? A short piece based on some research I've been working on that's coming out soon in the Journal of Cyber Policy, supported by the rotmanphilosophy.bsky.social think tank program
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Rotman Institute of Philosophy (@rotmanphilosophy.bsky.social)
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andrew buzzell @andrewbuzzell.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/06/12/t... “Here in Canada, you didn’t put disinformation in the [proper] context”
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Taiwan's ambassador says Canada needs to do more to combat 'information warfare' - iPolitics
"There’s much to do still. I’m not blaming the Canadian government. Most of the governments in the world don’t fear the threat of disinformation until there’s a specific event then they feel the pain....
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andrew buzzell @andrewbuzzell.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
yes!
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andrew buzzell @andrewbuzzell.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
it would be interesting if running could support a high quality independent and audience funded outlet like cyclists have in @escapecollective.bsky.social
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Cables from US embassies reveal how the silencing of VOA, RFE/RL, RFA, MBN and Radio/TV Marti are harming US interests abroad
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andrew buzzell @andrewbuzzell.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
cite is from a natpost "review". found this masterclass in misleading citation in the speccie:
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andrew buzzell @andrewbuzzell.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
i'd like to have the last 20 minutes of my life back that i spent satisfying myself that this isn't true.
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Martin Patriquin @patriquin.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A network of X accounts is targeting Canada ahead of the election, pumping out thousands of posts about the Canadian economy and alleged support within Canada for U.S. President Donald Trump’s annexation threat Via @thelogic.co thelogic.co/news/canada-...
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A network of X accounts is targeting Canada ahead of the election - The Logic
The accounts are pumping out thousands of posts about the Canadian economy and alleged support within Canada for U.S. President Donald Trump’s annexation threat.
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andrew buzzell @andrewbuzzell.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
so we are somewhere in between embrace and extend but a bit before extinguish en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace...
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Embrace, extend, and extinguish - Wikipedia
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andrew buzzell @andrewbuzzell.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
that's super interesting! is it possible to share a bit more about this, i'd love to use it as an example in my class?
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andrew buzzell @andrewbuzzell.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
A quick read on some research I’ve been working on at UWO about Canada’s vulnerability to manipulation and election interference.
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andrew buzzell @andrewbuzzell.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
model poisoning is the new astroturfing
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andrew buzzell @andrewbuzzell.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
and the new "i'm feeling lucky" standard
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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Apparently, Russian propaganda directly worked to secure the election of a specific candidate in the U.S. elections in 2024.
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andrew buzzell @andrewbuzzell.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
it’s like a hack-and-leak but from the inside out.
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andrew buzzell @andrewbuzzell.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
wow nice photo too!
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andrew buzzell @andrewbuzzell.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
100%, just like the old google. (leaving to one side llms aren’t info retrieval systems). and the ux will devolve in the same way for the same reasons.
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andrew buzzell @andrewbuzzell.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
one thing i puzzle over - where will the new sources come from? "OpenAI says that Deep Research is trained to select solid, reputable sources"
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andrew buzzell @andrewbuzzell.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
reminiscent of the effort aimed at the syria civil defence, which used youtube/twitter very effectively. much of what we know about how that worked was from the streaming api, which no longer exists. that this is still "dark magic" all these years later is such a failing.
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andrew buzzell @andrewbuzzell.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
a betrayal of the distinguished tradition of subprime mortgage-backed security safety and radium health & beauty safety!
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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Here is the House Judiciary Committee's letter to the European Commission asserting that the DSA and Codes of Conduct/Practice are censoring US users. I share and have written about *some* of these concerns. But based on this, Congress clearly needs better lawyers. drive.google.com/file/d/1V0so...
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House Judiciary DSA Letter Jan 21 2025.pdf
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andrew buzzell @andrewbuzzell.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
i think you are right. somewhere in the mix of "what is special about the potential social risk of ai" is the affordances we are giving it as a regulative technology. l'etat c'est moi, translated to machine.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The dynamics of this horrifying political moment reflect years long trends w/in our information systems: audience capture of an influencer by conspiracy theorists who are motivated by the interactions to descend further into those theories, attracting more attention and gaining power along the way.
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Anja Neundorf @anjaneundorf.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
4/ The biggest surprise? Media indoctrination and civil liberties repression are the most predictive of autocratic survival. These findings have big implications for “information autocracies” in the digital age.
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andrew buzzell @andrewbuzzell.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
reminded me of the “human encyclopedia” from frasier
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andrew buzzell @andrewbuzzell.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
this sounds amazing! do you have a syllabus you could share?
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andrew buzzell @andrewbuzzell.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
super interesting! i wonder if the persuasive effect is parasitic on something like an automation bias - that there is some trust being bootstrapped by the setting's interface?
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Alex Stamos @stamos.org · 26/11/2024
1) Many underestimate the investment the PRC has put into influencing the US social media sphere. 2) The destruction of Trust and Safety at X has made it a playground for PRC actors. 3) It's nice to see them whine about BlueSky. 4) But there is nothing magical about BlueSky to keep them away.
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andrew buzzell @andrewbuzzell.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
100% epistemic paternalism sounds great when you like the paternalist
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andrew buzzell @andrewbuzzell.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
i think you are correct wrt to information. but i think mis/dis info talk often masks worries about propaganda and various concerns about deceptive influence. these are much harder to articulate in a neutral way, whereas mis/dis info talk perhaps appeals as "debugging" the infosphere.
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andrew buzzell @andrewbuzzell.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
ha amusing query. i have a transcript from a cbc radio program about mysticism in canadian art that i've been schlepping from machine to machine since 2002
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andrew buzzell @andrewbuzzell.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
you know this one already but i teach this in an interdisciplinary ai ethics seminar and it gets great engagement: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Project MUSE - Owning Ethics: Corporate Logics, Silicon Valley, and the Institutionalization of Ethics
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
Discourse around misinformation doesn't always line up w/ our research team's findings re: how falsehoods actually spread in online spaces. Here, I provide a more nuanced view, describing the problem of misinformation as one of collective sensemaking gone awry: www.cip.uw.edu/2023/12/06/r...
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