🔎 Drawing on our expertise countering a range online harms, the DFRLab helped build the Academy as a mechanism to strengthen collective capacity to expose manipulation, protect human rights, and defend democracy in the digital age. Read more: bit.ly/48kgBqy

It’s a tough time for our community. We’re seeing incredible colleagues lose their jobs, it is painful. But now more than ever, we must #HoldTheLine. Andy is a brilliant mentor and friend who leads with integrity, generosity, and deep care for people around him. (1/2)

Hi everyone.... This week, I'm winding down my role as managing editor and research director at the @dfrlab.bsky.social. Like so many other organizations investigating disinformation and other online threats, we were hit pretty hard due to stop-work orders from the US Department of State. 🧵

1/ "too politically biased" "became a tool to censor" This is how Meta ends its Fact-Checking Program, which for years had unbiased, non-partisan, and hard-working fact-checking organizations around the world contributing to the prevention of misinformation and disinformation on its platforms

🕵️‍♂️ 🔎 DFRLab joined the #SofiaInformationIntegrityForum, collaborating with experts to combat online harms & democratic backsliding. We're thrilled for the opportunity to spotlight insights from our researchers @acarvin.bsky.social @vchatelet.bsky.social @sayyara.bsky.social @ruslantrad.bsky.social

NEW report: At @dfrlab.bsky.social we've investigated Telegram's role in Russia since the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The report focuses on how Telegram emerged as a pivotal platform for 🇷🇺to justify the war in 🇺🇦 and undermine Western support. dfrlab.org/2024/06/10/a...

During the battle of Avdiivka, Russian information operations utilized Telegram and state media to push multiple claims to undermine Ukrainian morale and Western confidence in its Ukrainian partners. Our overview with @vchatelet.bsky.social and @sayyara.bsky.social:

Our latest with @buziashvili.bsky.social 👇

It has been about six months since Wagner failed mutiny in Russia. Using geolocation, @dfrlab.bsky.social's @vchatelet.bsky.social and @sayyara.bsky.social documented damages and losses and estimated that the mutiny resulted in at least RUB 440 million (~$16.5 million) of equipment loss. See how:

More than five years after the murder of Saudi journalist and critic Jamal Khashoggi, pro-Saudi accounts on X continue to target his Turkish fiancée and fellow activist, Hatice Cengiz, with death threats and insults by at least 100 highly-engaged accounts that displayed indicators of coordination.

Six months since the failed mutiny by Yevgeny Prigozhin against the Russian MoD. With my colleague @vchatelet.bsky.social we analyzed available open-source evidence to document equipment losses from the 2023 Wagner mutiny. Read our latest at @dfrlab.bsky.social 👇 dfrlab.org/2023/12/21/d...

My team at @dfrlab.bsky.social just published this report by U of Cincinnati Prof. Michael Loadenthal in which he analyzes how Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups use Telegram to distribute propaganda videos, particularly footage touting their weaponry. dfrlab.org/2023/12/12/h...

Russian War Report | December 15 Russian conscription targets students and migrants Putin announces presidential bid in annexed regions Moscow bans QR codes These and more in the latest #RussianWarReport www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-at...

Next week! Join as @dfrlab.bsky.social, Duco, and @katieharbath.bsky.social's Anchor Change host an exciting conversation on the massive year of voting that will be 2024 - 83 national elections in 78 countries - and tech's role in informing developing global elections plans and strategies. RSVP:

The @dfrlab.bsky.social's @laylam.bsky.social joined the BBC to discuss how mis- and disinformation on social media have changed the way people consume the news, particularly with regard to the conflict in Israel and Palestine. Conversation starts at 34:10:

Today, President Biden issued an executive order on developing trustworthy artificial intelligence. While not exhaustive, it is an opening salvo for conversations the US government must have about AI. Atlantic Council Experts React ft. @dfrlab.bsky.social Graham Brookie & @rosejackson.bsky.social:

The @dfrlab.bsky.social rolling deep to EU Disinfo Lab's Disinfo2023! Today, Mattia Caniglia, Sayyara Mammadova, and Givi Gigitashvili held a workshop on open source investigation methods while Resident Senior Fellow Emerson Brooking discussed disinformation policies across global perspectives.

How to use TG Collector to scrape #Telegram channels Quick 4 step guide from Sayyara Mammadova @sayyara.bsky.social osintteam.blog/open-source-... #osint #socmint

The DFRLab analyzed a Russian narrative that accused the Baltic states of the attack on Pskov airport. New from @sayyara.bsky.social & Valentin Châtelet.

A screenshot circulating online allegedly showing "Shahed-171 photographed while flying near the border with Azerbaijan and Armenia". With just two clicks (tip: use reverse image search), you can find that this photo is from 2018. #debunked

The deadline to apply the @dfrlab.bsky.social ‘s #DigitalSherlocks program is September 5th! Participate in this unique online program to develop new skills in combating disinformation, including #OSINT, source verification, geolocation, narrative analysis and more. form.jotform.com/232196082048...

🚨 📱 NEW REPORT: Protecting point-to-point messaging apps: Understanding Telegram, WeChat, and WhatsApp in the United States Learn about the growing use of these platforms in the US and how differences in design and policy affect these apps, their users' privacy, and free speech.

Please join us tomorrow for an exciting panel looking at Sudan's information environment before and after conflict broke out in April this year. Registration info below!

First post here is on my newest piece for @dfrlab.bsky.social on a suspicious network of accounts positing copied, positive replies to the RSF. https://dfrlab.org/2023/08/02/suspicious-networks-copypasta-replies-to-sudanese-paramilitary-groups-tweets/

🚨 🇨🇳  NEW @dfrlab.bsky.social REPORT 🚨 🇨🇳 The latest report in Kenton Thibaut's series on Chinese Discourse Power. In this report, she assesses discourse power through a frame of “media convergence" and the mechanisms of oversight on which such communications rely. More in thread ⬇

Research shows that involving children directly in decisions that impact them is key to identifying best interests, understanding, and addressing children’s diverse needs. A trustworthy future web must reflect the rights—and perspectives—of children.

A new graphical user interface tool for scraping Telegram 👇

In the latest #RussianWarReport, I covered the allegations of the US and Ukraine orchestrated false-flag operation on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which are circulating across multiple platforms ahead of the upcoming NATO Summit in Vilnius. Find more from @dfrlab.bsky.social team 👇

A new conspiracy alleging a potential false-flag attack by the US and Ukraine on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant circulated online. Meanwhile, a Russian missile strike killed at least 10 and wounded dozens in Lviv in western Ukraine. #RussianWarReport🇷🇺 🧵👇