No surprise, but my father fell for ANOTHER AI-powered scam targeting the elderly. He saw an ad for something on IG. He ended up purchasing the snake oil they are selling. They made an AI manipulated video of Laura Ingram and Elon Musk. Folks, it's not even a good video.

Also true for my Digital archaeology approach to web archives 😆

More than some truth in this. In the end it’s just stats. Highly complex, but still statistics. Has anyone coined the term ‘Statistical responsibility’ yet?

i was reminded that i made a helpful tool if you're somebody who files FOIA requests for email logs (as a spreadsheet) upload them to GraphEmails.com and you can generate network graphs of who's emailing each other, which you can style and filter (or use to filter the log)

Un-mythosising Anthropic‘s Mythos - this cyber frontier dispatch from Cloudflare helps to put hype into context. blog.cloudflare.com/cyber-fronti...

Enshittification at work … „Curl’s creator Daniel Stenberg wrote in a blog post that the “never-ending slop” had taken “a serious mental toll to manage and sometimes also a long time to debunk”.“ www.ft.com/content/dbec...

Come work with me! A really cool job just opened up on our international investigations team at The New York Times for a reporter specializing in OSINT, with lots of room for different skillsets job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...

Tampere University offers a 3-year fully funded PhD position on the use of open source investigation in relation to the Ukraine and Palestine conflicts. tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...

This is worth your time. Puts in perspective the impact of fakes on our society. podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/e...

Web history disappears when it can’t be preserved. Today, some publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving parts of the public web, putting decades of digital history at risk. Tell publishers: don’t block the #WaybackMachine. Sign the petition ➡️ www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

Neu von uns: Collien Fernandes beschuldigt Christian Ulmen, sie »virtuell vergewaltigt« zu haben. Der SPIEGEL enthüllte den Fall, Ulmen ging dagegen vor. Nun hat das Landgericht Hamburg entschieden: Über die Vorwürfe zu berichten, war rechtmäßig und angemessen. www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/net...

Let's say you love journalism that pisses off the powerful. Let's also say, totally theoretically, you don't always love reading lots and lots of words of it. Well, you're in luck! There's a new podcast to treat that affliction: www.propublica.org/series/paper...

Using the rules of linear perspective to combat ai slop can I get a hell yeah

this 2-3 year reporting fellowship for the paper in Martha's Vineyard (comes with a furnished 2-bedroom guesthouse!) looks like it ruuuules vineyardgazette.com/henry-beetle...

This paper was retracted from the @nejm.org because the images of bronchial branching after smoke inhalation were obviously and transparently manipulated by generative AI. Look at the ruler. I don't even know what lesson to draw from this. www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

By the way, this was really great. #osint folks, check out @netpreserve.bsky.social and get in touch with the web archivists from your respective National Library. They have interesting sources to tab into. Happy to connect, feel free to reach out.

🚨Job🚨 at @data.ft.com: We're hiring a data journalist in the US, based in New York or Washington #ddj: job-boards.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

Just about to catch a super early flight to Brussels to add some thoughts on #osint, forensics and digital archives to this expert conference. Looking forward to mingle among web archivists from all over the globe. 👋 #iipcWAC26

BREAKING: You checked the weather this morning. And you just told a surveillance company where you sleep. Meet #Webloc, used by ICE, cops & foreign govs to track 500m+ phones. No warrant required. Our @citizenlab.ca investigation + how to protect yourself 🧵/1 citizenlab.ca/research/ana...

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Hey @rasmushelles.bsky.social, funny coincidence: you seem to have a German retro pic for image header. I have a retro Danish 😆 Great style Have a good one! archive.org/details/dani...

and here is Matt's piece on Wired:

New on @indicator.media: With @mattburgess1.bsky.social at @wired.com, I built a map of the reported cases where AI was used to create nonconsensual intimate imagery within schools around the globe.

See Also: www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-04... #archives #journalists @fightforthefuture.org @archive.org

The Internet's Most Powerful #Archiving Tool Is in Peril (via @wired.com) www.wired.com/story/the-in... #archives #webarchives #digipres #publishers @archive.org

OpenAI: don’t visit publisher’s websites!! let our chatbot summarize the reviews to help you shop!! ChatGPT: i frew up

Der Stand der Dinge - von @julianeloeffler.bsky.social, @maxhoppenstedt.bsky.social und Lukas Eberle. www.spiegel.de/panorama/ges...

Gefälschte Nacktfotos von realen Frauen: Unter der dubiosen KI-App Clothoff leiden vor allem junge Mädchen. Hier packt ein Whistleblower über das skrupellose Geschäft aus.

The open web is dying .. little by little

Sehr, sehr viele von euch haben sie schon gehört. Eine unserer bestgehörten Folgen ever. Freut mich. Wichtiges Thema, das endlich die gebührende Aufmerksamkeit bekommt, - auch unabhängig von der konkreten Recherche. Dafür ein Shoutout an @julianeloeffler.bsky.social @maxhoppenstedt.bsky.social. 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Die SPIEGEL-Recherchen über den Fall Collien Fernandes haben in Deutschland Ermittlungen ins Rollen gebracht. Die Staatsanwaltschaft Itzehoe nimmt ein Verfahren wieder auf, im Fokus steht Christian Ulmen.

Eine Petition gegen die geplante Neufassung des Medizinal-Cannabisgesetzes bekommt breite Unterstützung. Deren Initiator stellt sich dabei als Patientenvertreter dar. Aber sein Arbeitgeber profitiert vom bestehenden Gesetz.

Letzten Sommer ging ein #OnlyFans Coaching von damaligen Nazis rum. Wir haben uns gefragt: Was steckt dahinter? Sind Rechtsextreme wirklich auf OF aktiv? Sexten da Nazi-Männer (als Frauen) mit anderen Typen? Kurz gesagt: Ja! Mehr jetzt in unserem Beitrag: www.youtube.com/watch?v=glbi...

Ich bin schon lange ein Riesenfan von Anne Will und ihrem Podcast. Insofern wars mir eine ganz besondere Ehre und Freude, bei ihr zu Gast zu sein. Danke für die Einladung!

Ist zwar noch nicht Donnerstag, aber: neue #Folge! Mit @julianeloeffler.bsky.social und @maxhoppenstedt.bsky.social zu ihren Recherchen für den @spiegel.de zu #Fernandes, #Ulmen, #SexualisierteGewalt, #DigitaleGewalt. open.spotify.com/episode/32Z6...

Today on @indicator.media: I uncovered a coordinated network of AI "models" repeatedly promoting the gambling website 1win on Instagram.

Join ICIJ and @opencorporates.bsky.social on March 26 for a session that bridges the gap between digital anonymity and physical accountability, revealing the "brick and mortar" reality of the global crypto economy. Register now: buff.ly/yzCffyK #Crypto #AML #InvestigativeJournalism

SCOOP: Someone has found new samples of the iPhone spyware DarkSword and published them on GitHub, putting millions of iOS users at risk. A cybersecurity researcher told us that the leaked spyware is "way too easy to repurpose" and "we need to expect criminals and others to start deploying this."

A wave of AI-generated images and video has emerged from the Iran war. But a new phenomenon is also observable, write shirin anlen and Mahsa Alimardani from WITNESS: the spread of technical-looking analyses used to discredit authentic evidence.

Gerne teilen: Wir vom RND würden gerne verstehen, wie oft Frauen von pornografischer Deepfakes betroffen sind und besonders, an welche Grenzen sie gestoßen sind, beim Aufklären, Stoppen und Ermittlungen dagegen. Hier können Sie uns für Hinweise erreichen: www.rnd.de/kontakt/hinw...

Spanien hat schon vor vielen Jahren die Weichen gestellt, um Gewalt gegen Frauen juristisch zu bekämpfen. Hier erklärt Strafrechtsprofessor Manuel Cancio Meliá Unterschiede zum deutschen Recht.

Das solltet ihr alle lesen: Collien Fernandes hat Christian Ulmen angezeigt, wirft ihm psychische und physische Gewalt vor, analog wie digital. Starke Recherche von @julianeloeffler.bsky.social, @romanhoefner.bsky.social, @maxhoppenstedt.bsky.social, @milatz.bsky.social & Lukas

Die Schauspielerin Collien Fernandes kämpft seit Jahren gegen Fake-Pornografie im Internet. Jetzt hat sie ihren Ex-Mann Christian Ulmen angezeigt. Unsere Titelgeschichte zu einem strukturellen Problem, über das in Deutschland noch immer zu wenig gesprochen wird: digitale sexualisierte Gewalt.

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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"Hundreds of AI-generated Bollywood videos with 16 million views have been deleted from Google's YouTube after Reuters reported they were similar to those at the centre of a legal challenge filed by a celebrity couple to protect their rights."

„Using radar data collected by European Space Agency satellites, the FT was able to locate the spy ship hovering over critical cables in the middle of the Irish Sea in November, at a point in the voyage when the ship was seeking to hide its activities.“ on.ft.com/3VBqytS

Deepfake selfdebunking as misinformation correction method –what could possibly go wrong here? www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Mit wenig Aufwand kann heute jeder täuschend echte Videos erzeugen, die komplette Lügen sind. Rutschen wir in ein Zeitalter der Desinformation, in dem sich Fakt und Fake nicht mehr unterscheiden lassen?

Mandatory impact statement: @indicator.media's article led Meta to delete hundreds of AI nudifier ads and at least 20 pages and accounts. Apple also banned two related apps. Google ignored our request for comment about a related app available on the Play store. indicator.media/p/meta-ran-4...