A few weeks ago, I saw a group of people in a Facebook comments section trying to figure out if a picture of Ilhan Omar was real. (It was not.) I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I wrote about what I'm calling "strategic memes against public participation." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Estive fora e só vi hoje o delírio do Nuno Rogeiro no #aLesteOestedosfactos sobre estas imagens (de arquivo) de narcotraficantes armados com “uma espécie de uma cartucheira (...) que tem setas de bestas, algumas com setas envenenadas”... #pósverdade #desinformação #odestinodainformação

Talvez a #SICverifica possa explicar ao Nuno Rogeiro que esta "imagem que [o] impressionou especialmente" é claramente #AIslop produzido por esta página de embustes no Facebook: archive.ph/YrS5B #pósverdade #guerrafriaaosfactos #desinformação

Não, #SICNoticias, não "temos aqui o filho do chefe do cartel morto a ser levado pelas forças especiais da Marinha mexicana". São imagens da captura de outro narcotraficante em Chiapas, a 4 de fevereiro, explica aqui a @afpchecamos.bsky.social: checamos.afp.com/doc.afp.com.... #factcheck #pósverdade

#LusaVerifica: um anúncio no YouTube e uma página falsa do ECO estão a usar ‘deepfakes’ da CNN Portugal e do primeiro-ministro para promover uma burla que promete ganhos de “mais de 15 mil euros por mês” ou “9 mil por semana”. combatefakenews.lusa.pt/video-falsos... #factcheck #alertaburla

#LusaVerifica: Estava a chover quando André Ventura carregou águas e leites para ajudar populações afetadas pela tempestade Kristin, mas o Chega adicionou chuva falsa a um vídeo de resposta a quem questionou que estivesse a chover "torrencialmente". www.jn.pt/nacional/art... #factcheck #pósverdade

Os vídeos que o Rogeiro diz "que os EUA terão revelado dos helicópteros que participaram na operação contra o Maduro" estão no Youtube e no TikTok desde Abril: youtube.com/shorts/4wd-r... tiktok.com/@combat_avia... O palerma do Ireneu já tinha partilhado esse 'vídeo inédito' em Janeiro. #factcheck

#LusaVerifica: As redes sociais inflamaram-se com elogios e críticas a uma bombeira de Braga que teria rejeitado cumprimentar o candidato André Ventura, mas o aperto de mão aconteceu mesmo apesar de circularem várias fotos falsas desse momento. combatefakenews.lusa.pt/e-falso-que-... #factcheck

Watch: How we put together what happened during Russian's renewed attacks on Ukraine, starting on Sunday. Particularly, how we could work out where at least 12 miners were killed, near Pavlohrad. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg... How-to-open-source-this-yourself thread to follow.

Grok produced an estimated 3 MILLION sexualized images in just 11 days. According to the Washington Post, xAI intentionally tried to "embrace" sexualized imagery to increase Grok's popularity. We must hold Grok and X accountable for exploiting women & kids just to line their own pockets👇

🚨New WP "@Grok is this true?" We analyze 1.6M factcheck requests on X (grok & Perplexity) 📌Usage is polarized, Grok users more likely to be Reps 📌BUT Rep posts rated as false more often—even by Grok 📌Bot agreement with factchecks is OK but not great; APIs match fact-checkers osf.io/preprints/ps...

If the state can label a law-abiding citizen doing nothing but exercising their rights as a domestic terrorist – in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary – then no one (regardless of political persuasion) is safe.

All the analysis of slowed down vids, angles and POVs etc. experts share aside, the conclusive take within hours by all corners of the administration labelling Alex Pretti as a domestic terrorist is the make-or-break moment of this event. That is set in stone. That is what is damning.

The New York Times has published a timeline of events based on videos from the scene www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

#LusaVerifica: É falso que o vídeo partilhado pelo deputado Pedro Frazão mostre um imigrante a afiar uma faca dentro de uma carruagem de metro em Portugal, dado que aquelas são imagens gravadas há meses num autocarro de São Francisco, nos EUA. www.lusa.pt/article/4642... #factcheck #desinformação

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

Over 2.4 million views within just days: once more, this week has shown how digital #platforms fail to prevent the rapid dissemination of #disinformation. Shortly after the deadly accident in #Adamuz, unfounded claims about foreign sabotage began multiplying. Read the new analysis by @maldita.es 👇

No próximo dia 28 de janeiro, quarta-feira, decorre no Iscte a conferência "Desinformação e Democracia", uma organização conjunta do Iscte e do jornal Público que aborda a temática da polarização e das narrativas falsas. Apareçam! » Mais info aqui: www.cies.iscte-iul.pt/np4/4759.html

New real-world field study *inoculating* against misinformation in live social media scroll feeds out in Harvard Misinfo Review @misinforeview.bsky.social We targeted +375k users with a short ad on Insta using a novel quasi-experimental method (1/3) misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/preb...

📺 When climate disinformation goes on air, millions are listening. 🎙️ Join our next webinar I 29 January: Climate deception ‘On Air’ Learn how TV and radio are amplifying climate falsehoods and what can be done. 👤 Louna Wemaere (QuotaClimat) 🔗 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

"What if AI wasn't just hallucinating information, but thousands of AI chatbots were working together to give the guise of grassroots support where there was none? That's the future this paper imagines—Russian troll farms on steroids,” @ninajankowicz.com www.wired.com/story/ai-pow...

Advogada à dta queixou-se das #fakenews e disse q o @volksvargas.bsky.social "aparece e desaparece a dizer coisas 'pop-ups'" como esta "declaração [q tinha] na sua própria rede" e q "entretanto fez desaparecer". 5 segundos e encontrava tweet e o contexto q omitiu: x.com/volksvargas/... #pósverdade

A #desinformação no #NowCanal também é "incrível", "inimaginável" e "passa o quinto andar"... #Factcheck da @verifica.efe.com: verifica.efe.com/video-no-mue... #pósverdade

Iran's government has imposed a near total internet shutdown on more than 90 million Iranians since last Thursday, almost entirely cutting them off from the outside world for more than a week. In such an environment, it's become extremely difficult to know what's happening inside Iran.

👀 Read our blogpost to find out more about the role we played in that research: checkfirst.network/a-collective...

🎬 The recording of “Pop Fascism” is now available www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oN9... 🎭 Pop culture isn’t neutral. Memes, music, irony and AI can disguise extremist disinformation and normalise authoritarian narratives.

Israel is moving the yellow blocks that mark its control line further into Gaza. We mapped more than 220. In at least 16 cases the IDF placed them then came back and moved them deeper again. Some are around half a km beyond the mapped line. W/ @emmapengelly.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🤔 Why do we see so much harmful content online? Because social media algorithms push it to our feeds. Algorithms have a huge impact on how people perceive digital spaces, but they are not designed with safety in mind. Here's all you need to know about how algorithms work & why it matters👇

An AI video is spreading in posts accusing Renee Nicole Good of mocking the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk months earlier. It was created from a photo in which she and her wife are simply smiling at the camera. Read more: u.afp.com/SXyE

Este vídeo de mujeres en Irán rompiendo los cristales de un furgón de la policía tiene indicios de IA

This anonymous X account has repeatedly spread misinformation about US protests over the shooting by an ICE agent of a Minnesota woman. These three videos, all falsely claimed to show recent US demonstrations, were in fact taken in Minneapolis in 2020, Los Angeles in June and Greece in November.

A video of a woman burning a portrait of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has been shared with claims it was filmed in Iran, amid a deadly crackdown on protests in the country. But this particular video was actually filmed in Canada.

We've analysed new videos published by @vahid.online that show rows of body bags at the Kahrizak mortuary in Tehran on 10 January. We've counted at least 186 bodies in one clip and at least 178 bodies in another, although the true figure is likely much higher. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The IFCN strongly opposes U.S. visa bans targeting European researchers, public officials, and civil society leaders for their work on information integrity. Their work is not censorship. The visa bans are. www.poynter.org/ifcn/2026/if...

When big news breaks, misinformation spreads fast. It’s often hard to filter fact from fiction. Our 2024 guide remains relevant today, outlining what to look out for when it comes to misleading analysis. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...