Graphika's new report, Matching Interests, is out today! In the lead up to the FIFA World Cup, we monitored online conversations across nine major social media platforms to contextualize boycott discourse targeting the tournament, analyze engagement patterns, and identify amplification efforts.

Registration is now open for our upcoming webinar, Ask An Expert: The Geopolitics of World Cup Boycotts. Register now to submit your questions in advance! launch.graphika.com/the-geopolit...

Registration is now open for next week's webinar, Ask An Expert: Cyber Threats and Information Operations in Times of War. Register to join us next Wednesday, March 18 at 12 pm ET / 9 am PT as we examine the cyber threat landscape during the current Iran war: launch.graphika.com/cyber-threat...

Have AI advancements made detecting bots online harder? 👀 #Graphika Intelligence Specialist Angie Waller tackled that during our session Ask an Expert: Bot or Not? Understanding Automated Attacks and When They Matter. Watch the replay today to access the full webinar: graphika.com/reports/bot-...

AI slop is everywhere now - including embedded inside influence campaigns. So what can this tell us about adversarial actors online? Graphika analysts recently tackled that topic at @cyberwarcon.bsky.social and in our new report Cheap Tricks, High Impact: graphika.com/reports/chea...

#Graphika team members had an amazing experience connecting with everyone and presenting their talks this week on AI-powered influence operations and Pro-Iran narratives at @cyberwarcon.bsky.social. We're already looking forward to next year! #cyberwarcon #cybersecurity #cyberthreatintelligence

Graphika’s new report, Cheap Tricks, is out today! Graphika analysts examined how AI slop is powering influence campaigns online. To read the key findings and access the full report: graphika.com/reports/chea...

Our Senior Investigator Léa Ronzaud recently spoke with Cyber from the Frontlines podcast about romance scams, the tactics that scammers use, and the devastation that they wreak financially and emotionally.

Graphika Insight: Veterans & seniors are being targeted by scam ads claiming debt relief, home services, or “senior relief bills.” Key points: Fake VA benefits AI-generated videos & audio Paid promotion with little organic activity Access the full insight: buff.ly/8d3pWkz

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?