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Dina Sadek

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Senior Analyst @Graphika. I have opinions of my own.

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Graphika @graphika.com · 28/05/2026
Graphika's new report, Matching Interests, is out today! In the lead up to the FIFA World Cup, we monitored online conversations across nine major social media platforms to contextualize boycott discourse targeting the tournament, analyze engagement patterns, and identify amplification efforts.
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Matching Interests
Analysis of online discourse around 2026 FIFA World Cup boycott calls across major social media platforms, examining key narratives, amplification patterns, and geopolitical context.
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Graphika @graphika.com · 14/05/2026
Registration is now open for our upcoming webinar, Ask An Expert: The Geopolitics of World Cup Boycotts. Register now to submit your questions in advance! launch.graphika.com/the-geopolit...
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Graphika @graphika.com · 11/03/2026
Registration is now open for next week's webinar, Ask An Expert: Cyber Threats and Information Operations in Times of War. Register to join us next Wednesday, March 18 at 12 pm ET / 9 am PT as we examine the cyber threat landscape during the current Iran war: launch.graphika.com/cyber-threat...
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Graphika @graphika.com · 09/12/2025
Have AI advancements made detecting bots online harder? 👀 #Graphika Intelligence Specialist Angie Waller tackled that during our session Ask an Expert: Bot or Not? Understanding Automated Attacks and When They Matter. Watch the replay today to access the full webinar: graphika.com/reports/bot-...
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
washingtonpost.com
Are you in TikTok’s cat niche? What 121,000 videos reveal
We re-created TikTok’s algorithm based on 1,100 users’ feeds. Explore which topics are in your feed and see what the algorithm is least likely to show you.
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Graphika @graphika.com · 02/12/2025
AI slop is everywhere now - including embedded inside influence campaigns. So what can this tell us about adversarial actors online? Graphika analysts recently tackled that topic at @cyberwarcon.bsky.social and in our new report Cheap Tricks, High Impact: graphika.com/reports/chea...
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Graphika @graphika.com · 21/11/2025
#Graphika team members had an amazing experience connecting with everyone and presenting their talks this week on AI-powered influence operations and Pro-Iran narratives at @cyberwarcon.bsky.social. We're already looking forward to next year! #cyberwarcon #cybersecurity #cyberthreatintelligence
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Graphika @graphika.com · 19/11/2025
Graphika’s new report, Cheap Tricks, is out today! Graphika analysts examined how AI slop is powering influence campaigns online. To read the key findings and access the full report: graphika.com/reports/chea...
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Cheap Tricks
AI tools have accelerated the speed and scale of influence operations, but their content remains low-quality and has limited organic impact.
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Graphika @graphika.com · 30/09/2025
Our Senior Investigator Léa Ronzaud recently spoke with Cyber from the Frontlines podcast about romance scams, the tactics that scammers use, and the devastation that they wreak financially and emotionally.
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Graphika In The News: Talking Romance Scams With Cyber From The Frontlines
Graphika Senior Investigator Léa Ronzaud discussed romance scams and online fraud with the Cyber from the Frontlines podcast, including highlights from Graphika's report Looking For Love On All The Wr...
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Graphika @graphika.com · 02/10/2025
Graphika Insight: Veterans & seniors are being targeted by scam ads claiming debt relief, home services, or “senior relief bills.” Key points: Fake VA benefits AI-generated videos & audio Paid promotion with little organic activity Access the full insight: buff.ly/8d3pWkz
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
ftc.gov
False alarm, real scam: how scammers are stealing older adults’ life savings
Reports to the FTC show a growing wave of scams aimed squarely at retirees’ life savings. These scammers pretend to be from known and trusted government agencies and businesses.
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
cnbc.com
Imposter scams cost older adults $700 million in 2024, FTC finds: Some victims are ‘clearing out' their 401(k)s
Americans age 60 and older are increasingly reporting being victims of imposter scams, sometimes losing their life savings.
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
washingtonpost.com
‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web
As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI chatbots.
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
occrp.org
Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle
The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services.
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I joined my friend Josh yesterday for my second Distinguished Gentleman's Ride to raise funds and awareness for men's mental health and prostate cancer research. Please consider supporting either of our fundraiser pages: gfolk.me/DinaSadek or gfolk.me/JoshMinerDC. Thank you! #MensHealth
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
abcnews.go.com
FBI has opened 250 investigations tied to violent online network '764' that preys on teens, top official says
The FBI has more than 250 investigations underway into the network of violent predators known as "764," FBI Assistant Director David Scott says in an exclusive interview.
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
blog.kraken.com
How we identified a North Korean hacker who tried to get a job at Kraken
Cybersecurity isn’t just a priority for Kraken, it’s part of our origin story and embedded into our DNA.
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
“The affidavit alleges that the group targeted vulnerable children online, coercing them into producing degrading and explicit content under threat and manipulation.”
justice.gov
Leaders of 764 Arrested and Charged for Operating Global Child Exploitation Enterprise
Leonidas Varagiannis, also known as “War,” 21, a citizen of the United States residing in Thessaloniki, Greece, and Prasan Nepal, also known as “Trippy,” 20, of North Carolina, were arrested and charg...
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
A series of fake news clips have gone viral on X, TikTok and YouTube which falsely claim British comedian Jim Davidson has leaked CCTV footage of Keir Starmer and Labour donor Lord Alli "in a compromising position". The videos appear to be part of a targeted fake news campaign.
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
pwc.com
Chart a course with PwC’s Cyber Threats 2024: A Year in Retrospect
Dive into PwC’s Cyber Threats 2024: A Year in Retrospect for knowledge to help you navigate the shifting tides of cyber threats in 2025 and beyond.
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Institute for Strategic Dialogue @isdglobal.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The viral assault hoax “National Rape Day” resurfaces every April 24. It isn’t a real “holiday” — but its harms are very real. Read our report on how the hoax has been amplified by a mix of influencers, media outlets and politicians across at least four countries. www.isdglobal.org/isd-publicat...
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When Hoaxes Make the Headlines: The Spread of ‘National Rape Day’ on TikTok
In April 2024, TikTok's failure to address the spread of the debunked ‘National Rape Day’ hoax highlighted gaps in its content moderation.
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
anthropic.com
Detecting and Countering Malicious Uses of Claude
Detecting and Countering Malicious Uses of Claude
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
apnews.com
Via porn, gore and ultra-violence, extremist groups are sinking hooks online into the very young
Counterterrorism agencies are grappling with a new generation of young people who are consuming ultraviolent content produced by extremist groups and their supporters.
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
theguardian.com
Risks to children playing Roblox ‘deeply disturbing’, say researchers
Exclusive: Gaming platform accused of ‘troubling disconnect between child-friendly appearance and reality’
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Olga Robinson @olgar.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
An AI generated video of the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Myanmar has gone viral alongside real footage of devastation. Here’s how we know the fake video is not real @paulybrown.bsky.social @shayan86.bsky.social @jcheetham.bsky.social; @herdjemimah.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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BBC Verify: Earthquake video proven fake gets millions of views
BBC Verify: Earthquake video proven fake gets millions of views
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
anthropic.com
The "think" tool: Enabling Claude to stop and think
A blog post for developers, describing a new method for complex tool-use situations
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Third EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Threats
eeas.europa.eu
3rd EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Threats
The 3rd EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) Threats maps out the digital infrastructure deployed by foreign actors, mainly by Russia, but also by China, to manipula...
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Isabel Linzer @isabelalinzer.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
New research alert!🚨 Pleased to share a new @cendemtech.bsky.social report on information resilience in the context of AI and elections. For me it answers the question of whether AI matters for elections with a clear “yes” - though not always in the way you’d expect🧵 cdt.org/insights/ada...
cdt.org
Adaptation and Innovation: The Civic Space Response to AI-Infused Elections
With case studies also by: Laura Zommer and Kian Vesteinsson Introduction AI avatars delivered independent news about Venezuela’s contested election, allowing journalists to protect their identity and...
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
cpj.org
CPJ leads joint letter to Egyptian president urging release of writer Alaa Abdelfattah - Committee to Protect Journalists
In a joint letter led by the Committee to Protect Journalists, 50 prominent human rights leaders, Nobel Prize laureates, writers, and public figures have called on Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-S...
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
dfrlab.org
How to consume information in times of conflict
Unverified information can exacerbate conflicts. Recognizing and scrutinizing it should become reflexive for all of us
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
openai.com
Disrupting malicious uses of AI
Ensuring AI benefits humanity by advancing democratic AI, preventing misuse, and protecting against authoritarian threats.
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Dan Black @danwblack.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Today, Google Threat Intelligence is alerting the community to increasing efforts from several Russia state-aligned threat actors (GRU, FSB, etc.) to compromise Signal Messenger accounts. cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...
cloud.google.com
Signals of Trouble: Multiple Russia-Aligned Threat Actors Actively Targeting Signal Messenger | Google Cloud Blog
Russia state-aligned threat actors target Signal Messenger accounts used by individuals of interest to Russia's intelligence services.
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
dfrlab.org
Assad's silent network: Syrian influence operations in Latin America
Assad regime effectively exploited the region's existing disinformation networks, inserting narratives into popular sociopolitical causes
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Analysis from the @dfrlab.bsky.social on Russia's broader influence in the region about the war Ukraine www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...
atlanticcouncil.org
Complicated history helps Russian narratives about Ukraine find a foothold in the Middle East
Several countries in the Middle East and North Africa are undergoing democratic backsliding and a return to authoritarian rule
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
rsf.org
Egypt: inside Russia’s Arabic disinformation factory
For the past ten years, the Cairo office of Russian state media outlets RIA Novosti and Sputnik has centralised their international news coverage in  Arabic. These outlets capitalise on criticism of W...
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
newswire.ca
Call for entries: Canadian Journalism Foundation awards and fellowships
/CNW/ - To celebrate the exceptional work of journalists and news organizations across the country, and to provide professional growth opportunities for...
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
atlanticcouncil.org
What DeepSeek’s breakthrough says (and doesn’t say) about the ‘AI race’ with China
DeepSeek’s achievement has not exactly undermined the United States’ export control strategy, but it does bring up important questions about the broader US strategy on AI.
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG)’s latest report on Adversarial Misuse of Generative AI
cloud.google.com
Adversarial Misuse of Generative AI | Google Cloud Blog
We share our findings on government-backed and information operations threat actor use of the Gemini web application.
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
"DeepSeek’s new chatbot failed to provide accurate information about news and information topics 83 percent of the time, scoring 10th out of 11 in comparison to its leading Western competitors"
newsguardrealitycheck.com
DeepSeek Debuts with 83 Percent ‘Fail Rate’ in NewsGuard’s Chatbot Red Team Audit
The new Chinese AI tool finished 10th out of 11 industry players
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
wired.com
How Chinese AI Startup DeepSeek Made a Model that Rivals OpenAI
When Chinese quant hedge fund founder Liang Wenfeng went into AI research, he took 10,000 Nvidia chips and assembled a team of young, ambitious talent. Two years later, DeepSeek exploded on the scene.
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
cbc.ca
Fake CBC ads have flooded X with sketchy headlines. We looked for the source | CBC News
X users have been subjected to a flood of ads that feature fake CBC headlines, leading to fake CBC-style articles. In the end, it’s part of an international investment scheme.
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
nytimes.com
When A.I. Passes This Test, Look Out
The creators of a new test called “Humanity’s Last Exam” argue we may soon lose the ability to create tests hard enough for A.I. models.
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Biden-Harris Administration Announces Regulatory Framework for the Responsible Diffusion of Advanced Artificial Intelligence Technology
bis.gov
Biden-Harris Administration Announces Regulatory Framework for the Responsible Diffusion of Advanced Artificial Intelligence Technology | Bureau of Industry and SecurityLock
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 09/01/2025
Tomorrow, SCOTUS will hear oral argument on the constitutionality of the TikTok ban legislation. Niharika Vattikonda and Benjamin Kelley explain the facts of the case, the D.C. Circuit’s decision on the matter, First Amendment questions at hand, and more.
lawfaremedia.org
The D.C. Circuit Court's TikTok Ban Decision, Explained
The court ruled the divest-or-ban requirement does not violate the First Amendment.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Shoutout to the Los Angeles Times reporters who are doing essential journalism under very difficult circumstances. They’ve dropped their paywall, but their ongoing coverage is a good reminder of why local newsrooms need support — and what we lose when those outlets are hollowed out.
latimes.com
5 dead, more than 2,000 structures burned as new fire hits Hollywood Hills
More than 2,000 structures have burned and at least five people are dead in wildfires burning across L.A. County. Red flag warnings remained in effect for Los Angeles County and much of Ventura County...
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Analysis on Meta’s fact-checking pullback by @markscott.bsky.social
dfrlab.org
Analysis: Meta's fact-checking pullback will have global consequences
The social media company's widespread overhaul of its content moderation polices will have a real-world negative impact, embolden authoritarian regimes, and put its own users at risk
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Andrew Tate is a great example of a man unable to recognise or deal with his own mental health issues so he has to make it a problem for everyone else.
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Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
wired.com
Meta's Fact-Checking Partners Say They Were 'Blindsided' by Decision to Axe Them
Fact-checkers claim they had no idea the company was going to end their partnerships and are scrambling to figure out the financial implications of the move.
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Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com · 07/01/2025
Genuinely baffled by the unempirical assertion that Community Notes “works.” Does it? How do Meta know? The best available research is pretty mixed on this point. And as they go all-in on an unproven concept, will Meta commit to publicly releasing data so people can actually study this?
We are now changing this approach. We will end the current third party fact checking program in the United States and instead begin moving to a Community Notes program. We’ve seen this approach work on X – where they empower their community to decide when posts are potentially misleading and need more context, and people across a diverse range of perspectives decide what sort of context is helpful for other users to see. We think this could be a better way of achieving our original intention of providing people with information about what they’re seeing – and one that’s less prone to bias.
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