Digital Integrity Alliance

Digital Integrity Alliance

@digitalintegrityalliance.org

Fake feeds, false facts, and a fractured future. DIA is a newly formed nonprofit combating the threats posed by weaponized #AI and #disinformation, safeguarding public discourse, and promoting transparency in our digital world. digitalintegrityalliance.org

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Laura Phenomenon
@lauraphenomenon.bsky.social

Fabulous piece about the human tendency to believe stories rather than facts. Rooting out disinformation depends on identifying those underlying narratives. In this case, researchers are training #AI to do this. But will that prevent disinformation - or just facilitate AI-enhanced disinformation?

The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com

Disinformation spreads not because it’s true, but because it tells a good story. ‪@fiu.bsky.social‬ is training #AI to decode persuasive narratives, track fake personas and expose foreign influence campaigns.

buff.lyWeaponized storytelling: How AI is helping researchers sniff out disinformation campaignsDisinformation campaigns are using AI to tell false but compelling stories. AI tools are also helping counter the campaigns by detecting incongruities in usernames, cultural references and timelines.

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RMontpellier - Climate Senior
@climatesenior.bsky.social

A weaponized AI chatbot is flooding city councils with climate misinformation www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/28/i...

nationalobserver.comA weaponized AI chatbot is flooding city councils with climate misinformationInternal instructions accessed by Canada’s National Observer show that the chatbot produces tailored scripts, petitions, reports and even speeches for council chambers. The messaging is all framed to ...

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New Scientist
@newscientist.com

As tech companies are abandoning content moderation efforts and eliminating fact-checking teams, the US government has terminated research grants for studying misinformation and AI-generated deepfakes.

newscientist.comUS government defunds research on misinformationThe US National Science Foundation cancelled funding for research on misinformation, disinformation and AI-generated deepfakes, even as misleading information runs rampant on social media

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New Scientist
@newscientist.com

As tech companies are abandoning content moderation efforts and eliminating fact-checking teams, the US government has terminated research grants for studying misinformation and AI-generated deepfakes.

newscientist.comUS government defunds research on misinformationThe US National Science Foundation cancelled funding for research on misinformation, disinformation and AI-generated deepfakes, even as misleading information runs rampant on social media
Digital Integrity Alliance
@digitalintegrityalliance.org

A team of researchers quietly ran a large-scale experiment, seeding a popular subreddit with AI-powered bots to see if they could sway opinions on divisive topics. Spoiler: They did. The power of persuasion is being automated and #AI #Disinformation is effective. www.404media.co/researchers-...

404media.coResearchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit UsersThe researchers' bots generated identities as a sexual assault survivor, a trauma counselor, and a Black man opposed to Black Lives Matter.

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Bluesky
@bsky.app

We’re introducing a new layer of verification on Bluesky — a user-friendly, easily recognizable blue check. In addition to account verification issued by Bluesky, we're also introducing Trusted Verifiers. Select independent organizations can verify accounts directly.

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TechTonic Shifts
@hurndog.bsky.social

When AI eats its own tail (we’re completely screwed, folks) AI GENERATED EXCERPT: The post critiques the reliability of AI-generated data, highlighting a fabricated statistic about General Electric's operational efficiency and the potential dangers of misinformation in various fields, such as law…

techtonicshifts.blogWhen AI eats its own tail (we’re completely screwed, folks)AI GENERATED EXCERPT: The post critiques the reliability of AI-generated data, highlighting a fabricated statistic about General Electric's operational efficiency and the potential dangers of misinformation in various fields, such as law and science. It emphasizes the urgency of fact-checking and warns against blindly trusting AI, advocating for enhanced critical thinking.
Digital Integrity Alliance
@digitalintegrityalliance.org

Next time an anonymous comment gets you #triggered, remember that this is the face of modern #disinformation. AI-powered bot farms don’t take sides — they inflame both to drive engagement, divide, and destabilize. Stay sharp and informed. #AI #BotFarms #AIManipulation

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Lukasz Olejnik
@lukaszolejnik.bsky.social

Yesterday on BBC News, AI Decoded I spoke about disinformation and the growing threat of falsifying reality using AI during humanitarian disasters, upheavals, protests and rebellions - to create fictional narratives for influence. The risk of subversion.

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Jandolina
@jandolina.bsky.social

A site posing as a "Trusted Source for News on the Conservative Canadian Party" is publishing AI-generated articles that are spreading rapidly on social media. AI is enabling bad actors to produce highly convincing, well-written misinformation at scale. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

cbc.caHow an obscure website with AI-generated articles is spreading false information about election candidates | CBC NewsDuring the federal election campaign, many Canadians want information about the personal finances of Canadian party leaders. Here's how one obscure website became one of the most influential sources o...
Digital Integrity Alliance
@digitalintegrityalliance.org

We’ve read every #disinformation book out there — ‘How to Lose the Information War’ is a standout. It lays bare Russia’s weaponization of #FakeNews, the tactics fueling global chaos, and warns of a future we’re hurtling toward. Joy to read. Well done @ninajankowicz.com www.amazon.com/dp/1838607684

amazon.comHow to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of ConflictAmazon.com: How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict: 9781838607685: Jankowicz, Nina: Books

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Social Media Lab
@socialmedialab.ca

"Bluesky, once merely seen as another Twitter alternative, has evolved into something far more significant, the flagship application for an emerging ecosystem built on its AT Protocol with promises to fundamentally reshape our relationship with social media." www.forbes.com/sites/damion...

forbes.comBlue Skies Ahead: Social Media's Quiet User RevolutionIn a digital landscape increasingly defined by user concerns over privacy and control, a quiet revolution is taking shape.
Digital Integrity Alliance
@digitalintegrityalliance.org

95,000+ AI-generated images, including child exploitation material, left wide open online. The scale of this problem is staggering. Regulation isn’t keeping up, and bad actors are exploiting the gaps. How much worse does it have to get? #AIethics #OnlineSafety www.wired.com/story/genomi...

wired.comAn AI Image Generator’s Exposed Database Reveals What People Really Used It ForAn unsecured database used by a generative AI app revealed prompts and tens of thousands of explicit images—some of which are likely illegal. The company deleted its websites after WIRED reached out.

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Gltch
@gltch.io

🤖🇷🇺 Propaganda just leveled up! AI boosts disinformation, amplifying pro-Kremlin narratives w/o losing its persuasive touch. A digital shadow war…🤯 #AI Source: https://phys.org/news/2025-04-propaganda-outlet-leverages-ai-amplify.html

phys.orgPropaganda outlet leverages AI to amplify content without any loss in persuasive powerA study of the use of AI by a Russian-backed propaganda outlet shows how AI allows propagandists to increase their production capacity without any loss in persuasive power. In December 2023, journalists at the BBC and Clemson University's Media Forensics Hub published an investigation revealing that the site DCWeekly.org was a Russian propaganda outlet, part of a broader network disseminating pro-Kremlin and anti-Ukrainian narratives.
Digital Integrity Alliance
@digitalintegrityalliance.org

Did a mistake expose bot networks operating in #Canada? #CTV mis-titled a YouTube video on #23andMe with a Canadian election candidate’s name—instantly, the comments flooded with attacks on them, heavily upvoted. Seems like textbook case of how #election narratives are being manipulated online.

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Jess
@fallsalotgirl.bsky.social

The Minority Staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee seeks a professional staff member to lead the Committee’s work on disinformation, AI, and emerging tech.E-mail a cover letter and resume to senate_employment@saa.senate.gov indicating the job referral number 231468 in the subject line

Digital Integrity Alliance
@digitalintegrityalliance.org

Resurfacing this article as one of the influencers paid hundreds of thousands to spread #Russia #disinformation is now part of the White House press pool. The lines keep blurring. We live in interesting times. How Russia covertly hired U.S. influencers to create videos www.npr.org/2024/09/05/n...

npr.orgHow Russian operatives covertly hired U.S. influencers to create viral videosDetails in an indictment match Nashville-based Tenet Media, which offered lucrative paychecks to prominent right-wing influencers. The influencers say they were deceived.

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Foreign Policy Research Institute
@fpri.bsky.social

China’s AI-driven cognitive warfare strategy represents a significant shift in modern conflict, leveraging big data, psychological operations, and automated disinformation to manipulate adversaries before kinetic battles even begin.

buff.lyAI Dependence and Political Blind Spots Undermine Beijing’s War Strategy - Foreign Policy Research InstituteChina’s Civil-Military Fusion (CMF; 军民融合) strategy, combined with its artificial intelligence (AI)–driven cognitive warfare (认知战) capabilities, aims to offset
Digital Integrity Alliance
@digitalintegrityalliance.org

State-sponsored disinformation is a raging wildfire — #Russia and #China are fueling it while US defenses crumble. We won’t stand idle. It’s time to defend our reality to protect our democracy. Read more: www.darkreading.com/threat-intel... #DigitalIntegrity #FightDisinfo #TruthMatters

darkreading.comUS Cuts Disinformation Defenses As Russia, China Ramp UpRussia and China spend billions of dollars on state media, propaganda, and disinformation, while the Trump administration has slashed funding for US agencies.

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David Meyer
@superglaze.eurosky.social

EU lawmakers are worried that AI providers who “adopt more extreme political positions” (who could that possibly be a reference to?) might use a watered-down implementation of the AI Act to to roll out election-warping misinformation or fuel wide-scale discrimination. fortune.com/2025/03/26/e...

fortune.comDon't water down landmark AI rules to appease Trump, key EU lawmakers warn European Commission"It would never be enough," AI Act lead negotiator Brando Benifei tells Fortune

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All Namibian News
@namibiannews.bsky.social

#FakeNews #Elections2024 #Misinformation #AI #WhatsApp

newsfeed.facilit8.networkAI, WhatsApp fueled fake news in 2024 electionsAllexer Namundjembo Artificial intelligence (AI) and social media platforms like WhatsApp played a major role in fuelling misinformation and disinformation during the 2024 presidential and National Assembly elections. This is according to findings from the Namibia Fact Check project, led by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). The project, which ran from November 2024 to March 2025, tracked the spread of false political information across social media platforms. It found that many political parties and public figures either had low social media presence or used their platforms to attack opponents rather than share policies or commitments. “The political parties, those with functioning social media pages or profiles, mainly use these to post and spread photos and short video clips of campaign rallies and graphics of party slogans,” said IPPR Media Lead Federico Links during the project’s report presentation. He said misinformation and smear campaigns were commonly shared by both political parties and the general public. “There has been a circulation of smear campaigns, mainly targeting political party leaders during campaigns,” he noted. Links cited one widely circulated false claim involving now-President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, alleging that she collapsed at a rally in Okahandja. “Even the media ran it, but was there any evidence to back the allegations? It was all over social media and in WhatsApp groups that she collapsed, but until today, there is no video to support the allegations,” he said. The project also uncovered fake letters claiming that the UK and EU were backing opposition leader Panduleni Itula. “All these were fake materials used to discredit political parties. The EU denounced the letter,” said Links. IPPR Director, Graham Hopwood, said Artificial Intelligence had become a significant tool in the spread of disinformation, with voices cloned and images generated to deceive the public. “With AI, voices were cloned, and images were created. The disinformation is global, and with the geopolitical changes in the world, the spread of misinformation keeps changing,” Hopwood said. He noted that localised disinformation was also a concern, such as speculation about political party funding and false claims around Cabinet appointments. “That can include speculation as to where political parties are getting their funds from, and even this week, we have seen disinformation and attacks on the Cabinet appointments, which operate on a localised micro level,” he said. Hopwood raised concern about a growing trend of information laundering, where fake content is made to resemble credible news sources. “You can see how social media disinformation is appearing on a template that looks like the NBC, The Namibian, or other media houses being used to push disinformation narratives, which can also influence the media,” he said. WhatsApp was identified as the most widely used platform for spreading false political information. The platform was at the centre of circulating fake Cabinet lists and other misleading content during and after the elections. With funding from the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI), the Namibia Fact Check project aimed to improve public awareness about how political communication shapes the electoral environment, especially through false or misleading content.
Digital Integrity Alliance
@digitalintegrityalliance.org

Austria’s recent exposure of a Russian-led #disinformation campaign underscores the pervasive threat of digital deception. Just another one for the list. apnews.com/article/aust...

apnews.comAustria says it has uncovered a Russian-steered campaign to spread disinformation about UkraineAustrian authorities say they uncovered a Russian-steered campaign aimed at spreading disinformation about Ukraine following the detention in December of a Bulgarian woman accused of spying for Russia...

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Kate Starbird
@katestarbird.bsky.social

The NYT's Steven Lee Myers and Stuart Thompson describe the machinery of misinformation (or what I prefer to call the "bullshit machine") that Trump and allies exploit to gain, maintain, and justify their power. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/b...

nytimes.comTrump Leads a ‘Machinery’ of Misinformation in Second TermPresident Trump’s first four years in the White House were filled with falsehoods. Now he and those around him are using false claims to justify their policy changes.
Digital Integrity Alliance
@digitalintegrityalliance.org

Here a shocking stat on #disinformation: Meta’s last transparency report showed 1.3B bot accounts deleted in a SINGLE quarter—about 15M per day. If just 0.1% slip through, that’s 14K fake accounts daily, ready to manipulate, mislead, and disrupt #democracy. Think the problem has worsened since then?

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KR🪾🪷🦕🌵🌳🌹🌍📖🗿
@kathrynmr.bsky.social

RichardTice Reform MP starts rumour. TheTelegraph reports it as fact citing unnamed source. Tice quotes them to back up his unevidenced theory. Telegraph continues to amplify story. Other RW influencers quote both. AI start quoting. Thousands believe disinformation. open.substack.com/pub/monkdebu...

open.substack.comHow a False Net Zero Claim Became ‘News’:The Right-Wing Disinformation Loop
Digital Integrity Alliance
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New Report: Inside the infrastructure of Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) operations www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/inside-... #russia #china #disinformation

eeas.europa.euInside the infrastructure of Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) operationsThreat Actors across the world continue their intentional, strategic and co-ordinated attempts to manipulate facts, to confuse, and to sow division, fear and hatred. They do so in an attempt to achiev...

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Prof. Amy Mack (she/her)
@acmack.bsky.social

There's an AI generated video of Connor McDavid criticizing Prime Minister Carney blowing up in some of my field sites today, and the comment sections are bleak. The election disinformation campaigns are going to be rough. It's not even a good deepfake. But folks don't care.

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Warren
@real2roosters.bsky.social

There is very little "I" in AI and Russia is playing 5D chess in the disinformation business while the west is playing checkers

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Maria Giovanna Sessa
@netosessa.bsky.social

✍️💬 In the era of #genAI, seeing is NOT believing anymore: between perception hacking & the liar’s dividend, AI-fueled #disinformation undermines our relationship with reality

glistatigenerali.comIntelligenza artificiale: perché il nostro rapporto con la realtà è a rischioChe stiamo vivendo una crescita senza precedenti dell’intelligenza artificiale (IA) è ormai dato per assodato. Le reazioni a questi sviluppi sono spesso

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btorbennielsen.bsky.social
@btorbennielsen.bsky.social

87% believe misinformation harmed politics. 56% still get news from social media. 89% want government control. We know the water is contaminated, but we keep drinking it anyway? Can somebody help me to understand this paradox? #AI #socialmedia #misinformation

Digital Integrity Alliance
@digitalintegrityalliance.org

Relying on detection alone to stop #disinformation is like removing metal detectors at a stadium and hoping security catches every threat AFTER they get inside. Authenticity checks are our best defense—we need to keep the arena of public #discourse safe. This can be done while protecting anonymity.