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Disinformation for Hire: Russians Hijack Western Media, Tech Companies for Profit

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The staples of Russian misinformation campaigns—fake news and social media propaganda—are turning up in a new place: the private sector. For a small fee, companies can pay Russian operatives to boost their image or smear their competitors, employing some of the same tactics used by the Kremlin to disrupt the 2016 U.S. presidential election. To […]

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Ahead of 2020, Facebook Falls Short on Plan to Share Data on Disinformation

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In April 2018, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, told Congress about an ambitious plan to share huge amounts of posts, links and other user data with researchers around the world so that they could study and flag disinformation on the site. “Our goal is to focus on both providing ideas for preventing interference in 2018

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China branded a ‘global disinformation superpower’ by new research

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Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Diaoyutai State Guest House in Beijing (EPA) China has become a major player in global social media manipulation campaigns, researchers say, amid an overall increase in the number of countries sharing misinformation online. According to the Oxford Internet Institute, organised social media manipulation has more than doubled since 2017,

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Google’s Knowledge Panels Are Magnifying Disinformation

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That box is what Google calls a “knowledge panel,” a collection of definitive-seeming information (dates, names, biographical details, net worths) that appears when you Google someone or something famous. Seven years after their introduction, in 2012, knowledge panels are essential internet infrastructure: 62 percent of mobile searches in June 2019 were no-click, according to the

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Facebook, Twitter accuse China of Hong Kong disinformation

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The Chinese government has mobilized its vast propaganda machine against the pro-democracy protests that have roiled the streets of Hong Kong since this spring. And it has made America’s social media companies its unwitting partners in that campaign, they say. Facebook and Twitter said Monday they had discovered and suspended a slew of social media

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Disinformation producers get paid P30M for 3-month campaigns – expert

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Many disinformation architects are professionals from the PR and advertising industries, who have left their big firms to essentially market politicians Published 3:27 PM, August 24, 2019 Updated 3:27 PM, August 24, 2019 JASON CABANES. The DLSU professor discusses the ‘Innovations in conceptualising digital disinformation’ at the Atendeo de Davao University, Friday, August 23. Screenshot

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Google shuts down 210 YouTube channels linked to Chinese disinformation campaign

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Some 210 YouTube accounts were just disabled by Google LLC for involvement in a coordinated effort to spread disinformation relating to the Hong Kong protests. Google said Thursday it has identified threats after sharing information with industry partners and law enforcement, following an internal investigation found a propaganda campaign on YouTube similar to the campaigns recently

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Here are all the social apps Russian trolls used to spread disinformation, from Soundcloud to Pokemon Go

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From Alphabet’s data, the New Knowledge report concluded: “Alphabet’s subsidiaries YouTube, G+, Gmail, and Google Voice were each leveraged to support the creation and validation of false personas.” Using Google’s ad platform, AdWords, the IRA was able to disseminate hundreds of ads and promote propaganda websites, the New Knowledge report found. The IRA used ads

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