I joined my friend Josh yesterday for my second Distinguished Gentleman's Ride to raise funds and awareness for men's mental health and prostate cancer research. Please consider supporting either of our fundraiser pages: gfolk.me/DinaSadek or gfolk.me/JoshMinerDC. Thank you! #MensHealth

“The affidavit alleges that the group targeted vulnerable children online, coercing them into producing degrading and explicit content under threat and manipulation.”

A series of fake news clips have gone viral on X, TikTok and YouTube which falsely claim British comedian Jim Davidson has leaked CCTV footage of Keir Starmer and Labour donor Lord Alli "in a compromising position". The videos appear to be part of a targeted fake news campaign.

The viral assault hoax “National Rape Day” resurfaces every April 24. It isn’t a real “holiday” — but its harms are very real. Read our report on how the hoax has been amplified by a mix of influencers, media outlets and politicians across at least four countries. www.isdglobal.org/isd-publicat...

An AI generated video of the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Myanmar has gone viral alongside real footage of devastation. Here’s how we know the fake video is not real @paulybrown.bsky.social @shayan86.bsky.social @jcheetham.bsky.social; @herdjemimah.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Third EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Threats

New research alert!🚨 Pleased to share a new @cendemtech.bsky.social report on information resilience in the context of AI and elections. For me it answers the question of whether AI matters for elections with a clear “yes” - though not always in the way you’d expect🧵 cdt.org/insights/ada...

Today, Google Threat Intelligence is alerting the community to increasing efforts from several Russia state-aligned threat actors (GRU, FSB, etc.) to compromise Signal Messenger accounts. cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

Analysis from the @dfrlab.bsky.social on Russia's broader influence in the region about the war Ukraine www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...

Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG)’s latest report on Adversarial Misuse of Generative AI

"DeepSeek’s new chatbot failed to provide accurate information about news and information topics 83 percent of the time, scoring 10th out of 11 in comparison to its leading Western competitors"

Biden-Harris Administration Announces Regulatory Framework for the Responsible Diffusion of Advanced Artificial Intelligence Technology

Tomorrow, SCOTUS will hear oral argument on the constitutionality of the TikTok ban legislation. Niharika Vattikonda and Benjamin Kelley explain the facts of the case, the D.C. Circuit’s decision on the matter, First Amendment questions at hand, and more.

Shoutout to the Los Angeles Times reporters who are doing essential journalism under very difficult circumstances. They’ve dropped their paywall, but their ongoing coverage is a good reminder of why local newsrooms need support — and what we lose when those outlets are hollowed out.

Analysis on Meta’s fact-checking pullback by @markscott.bsky.social

Andrew Tate is a great example of a man unable to recognise or deal with his own mental health issues so he has to make it a problem for everyone else.

Genuinely baffled by the unempirical assertion that Community Notes “works.” Does it? How do Meta know? The best available research is pretty mixed on this point. And as they go all-in on an unproven concept, will Meta commit to publicly releasing data so people can actually study this?

Ireland joins Boliva, The Maldives, Chile, Türkiye, Spain, Mexico, Libya, Colombia, Nicaragua and Palestine in the South Africa v Israel case.

A look back at 2024 from the @dfrlab.bsky.social

31 women were executed in Iran during 2024, marking the highest annual number in 17 years, according to Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO). iranwire.com/en/women/137...

What's faker than 300+ Bluesky accounts copy-pasting the same bio? At least spam bots try to be creative. #programmaticproganda #inauthenticbehaviour

NEW: Meta tells me that it is deleting the AI profiles that are currently going viral, and that there is "confusion" about these versus what is to come in the future. A few of them are being deleted as we speak: www.404media.co/metas-ai-pro...

🚨🇬🇪 Suspicious Facebook ads exploiting #GeorgiaProtests 🇬🇪 🚨 DFRLab uncovered deceptive ads posing as protest-related content, luring users into financial scams during Georgia’s #foreignagentslaw protests. Uncover the story from @sopogelava.bsky.social & @ggigitashvili.bsky.social bit.ly/3DrKSYx