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Patrick Warren

@pwarren.bsky.social
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I am a (sometime) economist to studies people lying on the internet.

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Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Out today! An update to our award-winning Spot-The-Troll Quiz. New trolls, new real users, new tricks, new lessons! Check it out: spotthetroll.org
spotthetroll.org
Internet Troll and Disinformation Quiz
Learn the signs of online disinformation and internet trolls. The Spot the Troll quiz asks you to examine real social media profiles and posts and decide whether they are legitimate.
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Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
This is how policy works now.
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Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
What are the most important differences between producing the machines used in manufacturing and producing the human capital required to install/maintain/operate those machines? We seem a lot more worried about balanced trade in physical capital than human capital.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
30 years ago a professor explained tariffs to me as “economic sanctions a country puts on itself” and that stuck with me.
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Morgan Wack @morganwack.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
🚨 Excited to see our new paper out at @pnasnexus.org w/@pwarren.bsky.social, Darren Linvill, & Carl Ehrett! Using data from a Russia-backed influence operation running puppet website DCWeekly, we show how LLMs are being used to scale global disinfo campaigns: 1/ 🧵 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This is going to get worse, not better. Never underestimate the American public’s thirst for performative cruelty towards The Other: defendants, foreigners, anyone they’ve been conditioned to see as less than human. We’re the country that made lynchings into picnics.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Welp, there goes the US defense industry.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Rubio’s position seems to be: - We get to say who is a terrorist. Our decision is final. It can’t be challenged. Just trust us. - Once we decide you are a terrorist, we can immediately deport you. No judges. - After we deport you, we can make you rot in a foreign prison. No criminal charges needed.
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Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
These orders are the most directly authoritarian thing that the Trump admin thing has done. The logical end of this approach to EOs is to make it functionally impossible for Trump adversaries to get representation in U.S. federal court.
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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
no joke, social security workers can’t access @wired.com anymore @davidgilbert.bsky.social has more:
wired.com
Social Security Workers Aren't Allowed to Read This Story
New internet restrictions at the embattled SSA have cut off access to WIRED, along with other “general news” websites like The Washington Post and The New York Times.
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Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
If Peter Navarro has one good idea, it will be the first time.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
JFC. The US Economic Policy Uncertainty Index is at its highest level since 2000, higher than during the Financial Crisis, higher than during COVID
The US Economic Policy Uncertainty Index is at its highest level ever recorded, higher than during the Financial Crisis, higher than during COVID
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 20/02/2025
Using the case study of the MAGA mannequin video, Darren Linvill and @pwarren.bsky.social explore how Russian disinformation operations shape narratives and erode support for Ukraine's war effort, especially among American conservatives.
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Ukraine: The Past, Present, and Future of Russian Disinformation
Russian malign influence operations have changed their tactics in recent years. But their message has stayed the same: Abandon Ukraine.
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Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
It's Schrödinger's Coup!
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 09/02/2025
Musk has no technical skills whatsoever, but he wants to appear smart. So he takes bits of information like this, told to him by junior engineers, and regurgitates it to appear smart. Musk did this with the Twitter stack and Twitter's senior architects called him out publicly, then he fired them.
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Noah Williams @bellmanequation.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Clemson University is looking to hire an Animal, salary not specified
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Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I'm afraid we're going to have learn the hard way.
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Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Live shot of Executive Branch
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Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
So far: State and USAID?
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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
This is only the beginning.
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Joe Ura @joeura.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Two of my colleagues had a State Department grant suspended this morning.
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Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Hearing rumors of ongoing US government grants being suspended today. Anyone else hearing the same?
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Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I don't think Community Notes are qualitatively different from many other algorithmic approachesto select top comments or most informative reviews. They are all similar systems for selecting and highlighting privileged responses to main content.
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Mary Beth Hunzaker @mbhunzaker.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Okay, so just a few* thoughts (*this got longer as I wrote 😅….long thread)-
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Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
New from the Hub: Further analysis of Storm 1516, and its relationship with the Foundation for Battling Injustice, a Prigozhin-founded propaganda organization that might be more than it seems. open.clemson.edu/mfh_ci_repor...
open.clemson.edu
Writers of the Storm: Who's Behind the Ongoing Production of Pro-Russian False Narratives
This report describes additional findings about a pro-Russian disinformation campaign first publicly identified by Clemson’s Media Forensics Hub in December 2023[1] and subsequently dubbed Storm-1516 ...
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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
New: Do some political conversations on Twitter strike you as a little less than authentic? For the first time, researchers have uncovered a coordinated LLM network of nearly 700 fake accounts devoted to gumming up Twitter replies to advocate for specific GOP races: www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
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An AI-powered bot army on X spread pro-Trump and pro-GOP propaganda, research shows
The bot network supported Republican candidates in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania and boosted North Carolina’s Republican-led voter identification law.
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Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
AI bots and digital yard signs. A great report from @kevincollier.bsky.social on our recent work at the Hub. www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
nbcnews.com
An AI-powered bot army on X spread pro-Trump and pro-GOP propaganda, research shows
The bot network supported Republican candidates in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania and boosted North Carolina’s Republican-led voter identification law.
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Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
Yesterday's "Influence and cyber operations update" from OpenAI provides additional context for two of our recent reports: Iranian IO in Scotland and a Rwandan domestic operation. Check it out: cdn.openai.com/threat-intel...
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Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politic...
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Iran promotes Scottish independence more than the SNP on social media
A new academic report has claimed that there are 80 fake X accounts pretending to be left-leaning who post pro-independence propaganda and are run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Iran...
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Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
"Did not watch the debate" is undefeated.
VP Snap poll results -- Dems think Walz wins, Reps think Vance wins, Other think Walz marginally won, but actually mostly didn't watch.
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Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
Did you know: The top voice (by far) pushing for Scottish Independence in the last year was Iran? New report out of the Hub this morning about a large and loud inauthentic campaign on X targeting conversations in the UK: www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a... Details: www.clemson.edu/centers-inst...
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Iran ‘among biggest backers of Scottish independence on X’
Fake accounts linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have been stirring up tension in Britain, American academics suggest
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Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
Finland: 32 guns per 100 people. USA: 120 guns per 100 people.
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Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
The Aces seem to have forgotten who their best player is.
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 01/10/2024
me watching you edit the google doc
Moo Deng half hidden by a large tree so only one side of her face shows and it looks like she's spying on someone
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Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
I will call him "Mini Moon".
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Ethan Porter @ethanvporter.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
In a new article in Political Communication, @mattgraham.bsky.social and I study how to increase readership of fact-checks. It's hard! Social pressure, civic duty and small payments help; leveraging Party ID doesn't. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Ungated: osf.io/preprints/os...
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Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
The Haitian migrant pet-eating calumny is a blow-for-blow equivalent to blood libel against the Jews. Same motivation, same hazy origins, same prejudicial core. The fact that most reasonable people laugh at it as ridiculous reflects well on our progress as a society.
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Patrick Warren @pwarren.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
Check out our new report about how technology has turbocharged Narrative Laundering: tigerprints.clemson.edu/mfh_reports/3/ Then go read this BBC article about how the campaign we document in that report severely impacted Zelensky's visit to the US last week: www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
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