2023-10-13
This year @intgovforum hosted its annual conference. Sounds democratic, right? But where you host the conference says a lot. While this year's is in Japan, Saudi Arabia and Russia will likely host in 2024/2025. More in @WIRED ft @DFRLab's Leah Fiddler: https://www.wired.com/...
Wired
The UN's top internet governance body plans to hold its 2024 conference in Riyadh, despite Saudi Arabia's surveillance, censorship, and extrajudicial killing
I spoke to WIRED about the news that the Internet Governance Forum will be hosted by Saudi Arabia in 2024. … Asela Waidyalankara : The United Nations' top internet governance body ...
2023-08-14
In May, @GrahamBrookie joined a public Nobel Prize Summit panel hosted by @SwedeninUSA to discuss combatting, largely Russian, disinformation. Also on stage was Magnus Hjort, Sweden's director general for the Psychological Defense Agency. https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
How Sweden's Psychological Defense Agency, a part of the Ministry of Defense, is combating online disinformation from foreign adversaries, especially Russia
Sweden has tasked its psychological defense authority with openly combating fake news from foreign actors. … X: Alex Steffen / @alexsteffen : Some people, at least, are treating th...
2023-08-13
In May, @GrahamBrookie joined a public Nobel Prize Summit panel hosted by @SwedeninUSA to discuss combatting, largely Russian, disinformation. Also on stage was Magnus Hjort, Sweden's director general for the Psychological Defense Agency. https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
How Sweden's Psychological Defense Agency, a part of the Ministry of Defense, is combating online disinformation from foreign adversaries, especially Russia
The country has empowered a government agency to openly combat online disinformation coming from foreign adversaries, and especially the Kremlin. Mastodon: @carl@heath.social . X: ...
2023-04-22
A @DFRLab analysis of three state controlled media networks found that following a change in @Twitter's policy on the promotion of state affiliated media accounts, the once hemorrhaging accounts saw a dramatic uptick in followers. @AlyssaKann reports 🧵👇 https://dfrlab.org/...
NPR
Sources: Twitter removed its “visibility filtering rules”, or “shadow bans”, for Russian, Chinese, and Iranian government accounts and state-affiliated media
Dmitry Medvedev, a leading government official and former president of Russia, took to Twitter earlier …
2022-09-28
@facebook @Meta .@Meta concluded the network originated from #Russia. @DFRLab noticed several indicators of previous Russian influence ops including the amplification of pro-Kremlin narratives, paid promotion, inaccurate and non-native grammar; impersonating real people/institutions, and more.
Protocol
Meta details influence operations from Russia, impersonating news outlets to spread anti-Ukraine content in Europe, and from China, targeting the US and Czechia
complete with real reporters' bylines and photos — and promoted them using fake accounts to smear Ukraine, according to a new report by Meta https://www.protocol.com/... Donie O'Su...
After @DFRLab discovered a small inauthentic network on @Facebook promoting posts critical of Western sanctions against #Russia, an independent @Meta investigation revealed a larger network of 2300+ assets promoting Kremlin interests across Europe. 🧵⬇️ https://medium.com/...
Protocol
Meta details influence operations from Russia, impersonating news outlets to spread anti-Ukraine content in Europe, and from China, targeting the US and Czechia
complete with real reporters' bylines and photos — and promoted them using fake accounts to smear Ukraine, according to a new report by Meta https://www.protocol.com/... Donie O'Su...
2022-09-27
@facebook @Meta .@Meta concluded the network originated from #Russia. @DFRLab noticed several indicators of previous Russian influence ops including the amplification of pro-Kremlin narratives, paid promotion, inaccurate and non-native grammar; impersonating real people/institutions, and more.
Protocol
Meta details influence operations from Russia, impersonating news websites to spread anti-Ukraine content in Europe, and China, targeting the US and Czechia
Russia set up a sprawling and sophisticated network of websites impersonating mainstream media outlets, which it used …
After @DFRLab discovered a small inauthentic network on @Facebook promoting posts critical of Western sanctions against #Russia, an independent @Meta investigation revealed a larger network of 2300+ assets promoting Kremlin interests across Europe. 🧵⬇️ https://medium.com/...
Protocol
Meta details influence operations from Russia, impersonating news websites to spread anti-Ukraine content in Europe, and China, targeting the US and Czechia
Russia set up a sprawling and sophisticated network of websites impersonating mainstream media outlets, which it used …
2021-10-28
“Far-right movements saw social media... as a potentially liberating and unmitigated resource for them to bypass traditional ways of getting publicity for themselves or reaching people who might want to join their movements,” @jaredlholt via @MotherJones: https://www.motherjones.com/ ...
Mother Jones
Internal document from far-right militia Oath Keepers, with details on 25,000 members, shows Facebook was the most common way of discovering the group
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. — How does one come to join a militia? Tweets: @willoremus , @al...
2021-08-19
The debate continues over whether or not social media platforms like @Facebook, @Twitter, and @YouTube should allow the #Taliban to stay on their platforms and how censoring their networks is affecting civilians in #Afghanistan. @GrahamBrookie weighs in: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Financial Times
WhatsApp shuts down Taliban helpline in Kabul that was allegedly for reporting violence and looting, as Facebook blocks other “official Taliban channels”
2021-05-27
Alternative platforms like #Parler or #Gab have tried to pick up with slack. Even with a rush in enrollment post January 6, they remained dramatically lower than their numbers ever were on mainstream platform - just 2.4% of all mentions over the one-year period. https://twitter.com/...
DFRLab
Analysis of 40M pieces of QAnon content from 1/20 to 4/21: Facebook, Twitter, and others have successfully expelled most of the content after it peaked in 6/20
Our colleagues @jaredlholt and @maxbrizzuto detected analyzed over 40 million appearances of QAnon catchphrases and related terms online in a one-year span from January 1, 2020, to April 1, 2021. Terms included such favorites as “WWG1WGA,” “dark to light,” and “trust the plan.”
DFRLab
Analysis of 40M pieces of QAnon content from 1/20 to 4/21: Facebook, Twitter, and others have successfully expelled most of the content after it peaked in 6/20
Been feeling like there's less QAnon on your timelines lately? There's a few reasons for that including the moderation against it on major tech platforms, “Q's” silence, and Trump's loss and subsequent ban. https://medium.com/...
DFRLab
Analysis of 40M pieces of QAnon content from 1/20 to 4/21: Facebook, Twitter, and others have successfully expelled most of the content after it peaked in 6/20
As previously stated, the summer swell eventually subsided post January 6 thanks in large part to content moderation by #Facebook, #Twitter, and #Google. These actions correlate strongly with a continued dampening of QAnon chatter online.
DFRLab
Analysis of 40M pieces of QAnon content from 1/20 to 4/21: Facebook, Twitter, and others have successfully expelled most of the content after it peaked in 6/20
Major spikes in the terms could be seen around major social events including the beginning of #GeorgeFloyd protests and the January 6 #insurrection at the #Capitol. https://twitter.com/...
DFRLab
Analysis of 40M pieces of QAnon content from 1/20 to 4/21: Facebook, Twitter, and others have successfully expelled most of the content after it peaked in 6/20
2020-10-14
In another move to clamp down on mis- and #disinformation on the platform, @Facebook said on Tuesday that it'd no longer allow anti-vaccination ads on its site. On Monday, Facebook said that it would no longer accept Holocaust denial posts. https://www.nytimes.com/...
CNBC
Facebook announces a global policy banning anti-vaccination ads but will allow ads that advocate for legislation around vaccination policies
- Facebook said Tuesday it is launching a new global policy that bans ads that discourage people from getting vaccines.
2020-07-09
Facebook also removed 35 Facebook accounts, 14 Pages, 1 Group and 38 Instagram accounts linked to coordinated inauthentic behavior in #Brazil that focused on domestic audiences. #FacebookTakedown https://medium.com/...
Washington Post
Facebook says it removed 100+ Pages and accounts linked to felon Roger Stone, as well as some linked to Brazil's Bolsonaro, for coordinated inauthentic behavior
The longtime Trump friend and former campaign adviser used fake accounts and other deceptive tactics to manipulate public debate, the company said
2020-02-13
Important 🧵on our analysis of @Facebook assets taken down from #Myanmar ⬇️ Go more in-depth here: https://medium.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Financial Times
Facebook says it has banned a network of two dozen fake pages and accounts linked to two Southeast Asian telecoms for using disinformation against rivals
South-east Asian providers said to have used fake accounts to discredit rivals — Facebook has alleged that one of south-east Asia's …