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Thanks to everyone who joined us yesterday to hear @margotfh.bsky.social 's insights on FIMI in elections! 🗳️ Missed the live session? 📽️ Catch up here: www.disinfo.eu/outreach/our... ...and stay tuned for more insightful discussions! ➡️ www.disinfo.eu/outreach/our... #FIMI #elections #DemocraticShield

⏰ 𝑹𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓! If you want to hear about #FIMI trends targeting #elections, join us (and the 150+ attendees who already signed up 🤯) tomorrow! 💡 FIMI in elections – Can the past predict the future? 🗓️ 7 May 🕝 14:30 CEST 🦸‍♀️ @margotfh.bsky.social Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Next week, we're thrilled to welcome @margotfh.bsky.social to present the results of her research on foreign information manipulation and interference campaigns targeting elections! 🗳️ Join us ⬇️ us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #FIMI #elections #EUelections2024 #DemocraticShield

My brilliant and former colleague @margotfh.bsky.social is starting a newsletter on 2024 as an elections year and of course, all the #disinformation and the narratives that will, for sure, sneak around them. Enjoy, Join in, and share! #FIMI

On parle de Viginum dans Les Echos.

Avec des effets secondaires comme le retrait des financements pour les projets visant à étudier les manipulations de l'information ou le renforcement de la méfiance envers les initiatives de Factchecking des médias.

3) affaiblissement des moyens de réponse de la communauté en les faisant crouler sous des frais d'avocat pour répondre aux assignations à comparaître et aux poursuites judiciaires; 4) campagnes de harcèlement en ligne contre les influenceurs de la communauté comme Renee DiResta.

2) blanchiment et médiatisation de ce narratif à l'aide de la mise en place d'un sous-comité spécial intitulé "United States House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government" et la désignation de la communauté sous le nom de "conspiracy industrial complex"

Cette campagne se déroule à l'aide de plusieurs tactiques : 1) déformation de certains échanges, écrits et initiatives, notamment à l'aide des "Twitter Files", une série de documents et messages privés de la compagnie publiés par Elon Musk suite à son rachat;

Ils ont créé un narratif selon lequel le gvt, les plateformes & les membres de la société académique & civile comploteraient ensemble afin de "censurer" l'opinion publique américaine. La "lutte contre la désinformation étrangère" serait un motif pour faire taire le public, notamment les Républicains

Depuis janvier 2023, les Républicains ont lancé une campagne d'intimidation à l'encontre de la communauté de lutte contre les manipulations de l'information étrangères aux États-Unis.

“A vast Russian influence operation on TikTok involving 12,800 fake accounts spreading disinformation about the war in Ukraine to millions of users in Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Israel and Ukraine, has been uncovered by BBC Verify and @dfrlab.bsky.social.“ Via @shayan86.bsky.social.

J'ai demandé à ChatGPT comment faire une omelette. J'ai été servi.

“It used to look as if NATO was a sideshow for France,” says an ex-alliance official; “Now it is one of the few allies present on the ground, air and sea from the Baltics to the Black Sea.” www.economist.com/europe/2023/...

Another type of weaponization looming upon US elections : the "Weaponization” of public records requests to election offices. How to rub salt in the wound.

A new standard for describing the origin, history and legal rights to data : "The standards are essentially a labeling system for where, when and how data was collected and generated, as well as its intended use and restrictions." www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/b...

On October 28, one day before the regional elections in Colombia, @dfrlab.bsky.social's @danielsuape.bsky.social spoke with Caracol Televisión to explain how malicious information operations impact democratic processes and educating audiences to promote resilience in society. Watch interview here:

To be read.

If the United States wants to prevent war in the Taiwan Strait, it will need more than weapons in arsenals and strategies on the planning table, write @bglaser.bsky.social, Jessica Chen Weiss, and Thomas Christensen. Washington must also provide Beijing with credible assurances.

Advertisers said they did not plan to return to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, after Elon Musk criticized them with expletives at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit. X is at risk of losing up to $75 million this quarter as brands back away.

@vivianschiller.bsky.social about the political context "not super great" for US Elections in 2024. Usual suspects : mis & disinformation, polarization, bad actors. New issues : 2 divisive wars, platforms cutting staff, cooling of the academic researchers & com to platforms, new powerful AI.

Former French President Charles de Gaulle warned years ago: "How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?" Brussels should have listened. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/came...

De l'autre côté de l'Atlantique, la discussion continue. #aspencybersummit

Soon after the communications outage was first detected on October 27, the IDF announced that they would expand ground operations. On October 28, the IDF warned citizens to move south. Journalists covering the conflict questioned how local residents were expected to receive the evacuation warning.

“Calls grow louder to regulate artificial intelligence, counter disinformation, and social media. But how can democracies govern the information environment if they don’t know how it affects people’s thinking and behavior?” More from @lageneralista.bsky.social: www.oecd-forum.org/amp/posts/se...

New Foreign Information Operation reported by Viginum, the French Agency to counter foreign digital interference. This time, actors linked to Azerbaijan have conducted an information operation to call for the boycotting of next year's Paris Olympics Games. www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...

This article details the impact, but the problem is simple: a handful of election deniers - some who hold Congressional gavels - are running smear campaigns targeting election workers and researchers, to ensure they are able to act unopposed in 2024. It’s about power. www.npr.org/2023/11/10/1...

In today's Digital Bridge, we unpack Washington's artificial intelligence diplomacy with the help of Nathaniel Fick — the first-ever US Ambassador at Large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy. Read more:

"VIGINUM a détecté le 6 novembre 2023 l’implication d’un réseau de 1095 bots sur la plateforme X (anciennement Twitter), ayant publié 2589 posts contribuant à la polémique liée aux étoiles de David taguées au pochoir dans le 10e arrondissement de Paris." www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/dossiers-...

Mise en lumière de nos vulnérabilités, entre sacrifice de nos données à des plateformes peu scrupuleuses et instrumentalisation du droit. #lawfare #DriveOnlineHarms

#WeekendReads "Bridging systems": 1 answer to address the "bias towards division". Within our "attention allocation system", this paper tries to answer how to move from engagement-based ranking to bridging-based ranking to create space for productive deliberation. knightcolumbia.org/content/brid...

When the true meaning of the word "multidisciplinary team" becomes apparent. #Halloween at #Viginum