V 30. epizodi 🎙GOVSI Podkasta se z @netosessa.bsky.social iz @disinfo.eu pogovarjamo o dezinformacijah – kako nastajajo, se širijo in vplivajo na naše razumevanje sveta, zakaj boj proti dezinformacijam ni cenzura, temveč zaščita svobode govora in pravice do resničnih informacij. youtu.be/ul8fkCNcXS4

🔎 Le IA riescono a scambiarsi dati e decidere azioni senza un intervento umano. Un’innovazione che può essere facilmente manipolabile | @netosessa.bsky.social

Excited to be in Ljubljana today and tomorrow for #Disinfo2025 @disinfo.eu 🇸🇮💡🙋🏻‍♀️

La combinazione di polarizzazione politica, fragilità istituzionale e frammentazione del sistema mediatico rende il Paese particolarmente vulnerabile a pressioni esterne e tentativi di manipolazione | @netosessa.bsky.social

+ sur la désinformation genrée, (re)lire les travaux de @netosessa.bsky.social et Lucina Di Meco www.disinfo.eu/publications...

Happy to be at the CFI Dialogues 2025 @eui-eu.bsky.social, discussing how to detect and expose #FIMI and build the EU’s capability and active #defense 🛡️🇪🇺✊

🚩 From Code of Practice to Code of (Mis)conduct? “Between 2022 and 2025, platforms reduced the number of measures committed to in the #CoP by 31%.” The most affected areas are #factchecking, political #ads & measures to empower the #research community

💬✍️ Viral videos on #TikTok falsely claim that 80% of luxury brands produce in 🇨🇳 urging users to buy directly from them. 👜💸 This seems a coordinated response to US tariffs and a way to relaunch China as a quality manufacturer

✍️💬 In the era of #genAI, seeing is NOT believing anymore: between perception hacking & the liar’s dividend, AI-fueled #disinformation undermines our relationship with reality

🔎 An interesting brief by @cdteu.bsky.social on how platforms are handling their risk assessments under the #DSA 👇

✍️💬 #Climatechange #disinformation targeting the #GermanElections between denialism and delayism 🗳️⛈️

WhatsApp is now a Very Large platform in the EU, and will face tougher regulation

✍️💬 #Doppelganger actors continue to monetize via Meta ads @aiforensics.org @reset.tech @checkfirst.network estimated almost half a million dollars in revenue in 2 years despite sanctions! 💵

Looking at ‘Bothsidesing’ When equal coverage leads to uneven results www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/bot...

🚨Women -VS- Disinfo🚨 You really must listen to our interview with @netosessa.bsky.social of @disinfo.eu today We discuss her role, current research on Identity-based Disinformation, Illuminati Scammers and a firsthand account of why media literacy matters pod.fo/e/2abc6d

I've got to say, the guy who accidentally became the Director of the FBI does 100% look like the guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI in a mid-2000s comedy about a guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI

Next week we'll be releasing another incredible interview with the DisinfoLab's Research Manager: Maria Giovanna Sessa @netosessa.bsky.social Early access to this interview is available now on Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/early-...

✍️💬 Less than a month after the launch of #DeepSeek, doubts arise about declared costs, #AI training methods, data privacy, and #disinformation 🐋

My favorite since Bolkestein Vs. Bolkenstein

It’s official: Elon Musk’s staffers have now illegally obtained classified information from the USAID office. Here’s a recap of what’s happening:

Severance is so good

veraAI partner @disinfo.eu / Ana Romero-Vicente (@anicanaca.bsky.social) authored a report entitled "Visual assessment of Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour in disinformation campaigns". Editor: @netosessa.bsky.social. We provide a summary and the full publication here. www.veraai.eu/posts/report...

✍️💬 Somebody once told me: “Fascism is back, but it’s #technofascism, so let’s dance”

The call for proposals for #Disinfo2025 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 15–16 October, is now open! Share your ideas, research, or insights on disinformation with a diverse community of experts – submit your proposal now to be part of our 2025 annual conference! 👇 www.disinfo.eu/conference

Elon Musk vuole arruolare le pagine “bomberiste” italiane nella propaganda trumpiana? Ad annunciarlo è stata Welcome to Favelas, pagina consacrata al degrado che sostiene di aver incontrato gli emissari di Musk. Ma la notizia va presa con le pinze.

A year ago we published this @motherjones.com cover. It was basically a preview of the Trump inauguration stage. Oligarchy is the deeper story behind the distractions, and everyone should have been covering it. But it's not too late. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Aaaand TikTok removed themselves from the section of the EU Code of Practice covering political ads because they "don't allow them". 🤪

✍️💬 A few considerations on the (brief) #TikTok ban 🇺🇸 👮‍♀️ Forbidding an app does nothing for #nationaldefense 👷 Especially in lack of a #dataprotection law and sound #contentmoderation policies 🦸‍♂️ But what a success for #Trump to be the president who saved the clock app

Alternative facts thriving

According to WEF’s “Global Risks Report 2025”, top risks for this year are: 1. 🔫 Armed conflicts 2. 🌡️ Extreme weather events 3. ⚠️ Mis- and disinformation 4. 🪙 Geoconomic tensions 5. ➗ Social polarisation

As @bsky.app grows, will it be able to address and counter #disinformation operations efficiently? 🤞🦋

✍️💬 About #GBD (gender-based #disinformation) attacks against journalist #CeciliaSala, who was arrested in #Iran 🚺🇮🇹

“Freedom of speech” for the architects and beneficiaries of the bullshit industrial complex means the freedom to spread bullshit, but does not extend to the freedom to call bullshit.

✍️💬 La settimana inizia con una riflessione sui siti #proxy usati dalla #Russia per raggirare le #sanzioni #UE e continuare a diffondere #propaganda e #disinformazione

This joke is a self own in so many ways, it is almost unbelievable. 1. He found the woke mind virus on localhost, which is *his own computer* 2. He doesn’t know how terminal commands work

It’s such a relief to learn that Italian journalist #CeciliaSala has been freed after 20 days in an Iranian jail without charges ⛓️‍💥 Now let’s shield her from any wave of #gender based #disinformation that might come her way 💪

✍️💬 Il mio buon proposito del 2025 è di scrivere di più in italiano. Inizio da una riflessione sullo stop di #Meta al #factchecking negli USA

Remember: when faced with a choice, Meta always chooses the path that ensures maximum harm to the largest number of users. www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

Italian journalist #CeciliaSala was arrested in Tehran last week while on a journalistic visa and is being held in isolation in Evin prison — charges are still unknown. Talk about her! #FreeCecilia

“AI-generated content can be used in dangerously aspirational ways, for example, to help #radicalize audiences by visualizing potential targets for destruction.”

🚨 NEW REPORT 🚨 19thnews.org/2024/12/ai-s... We at @americansunlight.org are proud to share our latest work! We analyzed the prevalence of deepfake pornography targeting Members of Congress. We identified 30,000+ pieces of deepfake content depicting a total of 26 Members—25 women and one man.

"More than two-thirds of 100 companies behind the AI tools most commonly used and recommended by journalists are insufficiently transparent about their ownership, finances and other critical data, according to a new report" reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/who-own...

Did you spot our @koltai.bsky.social on @60minutes.bsky.social last night talking about her work monitoring the generation of AI pornographic deepfakes? You can catch up with the full episode here: www.cbs.com/shows/video/...

👉 #factchecking focuses on facts not opinions, voiding the arbiters of truth argument imo ☝️ but because of that, it has limited success when beliefs come into play 🙌 easier said than done, we need to clarify boundaries between what’s objectively knowable and subjectively perceived

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: On 24 November 2024, Israel's minister of communications issued sanctions against Haaretz, the country's oldest newspaper. The sanctions block the media organization from accepting government funding or advertising. ddosecrets.com/article/stat...

Check out @gijn.org ’s list of top investigative journalism #tools for 2024 💻 🔍 Also, if you’re looking for the ultimate “all in one place” tool, the @vera-ai.bsky.social InVID-WeVerify verification plugin is always a good idea! 👾👩‍💻

Romanian presidential election: It's not all about TikTok. We've uncovered over 4k political ads on Meta's platforms. They were run from 25 facebook pages tied to a network of websites pushing unverified claims in favour of the far-right. Read more: checkfirst.network/research-not...

🔴 Romanian citizen Bogdan Peschir donated €1M to TikTok to fund Georgescu’s campaign. TikTok confirmed $381K was paid to other users, violating electoral laws and policies. 🔴 TikTok did not comply with Central Electoral Bureau instructions, helping Georgescu trend 9th globally from Nov 13–26. 🧵 3/5

The conservative women’s magazine Evie has released their new cover featuring Ballerina Farm. Evie has peddled health conspiracy theories & disinfo, patriarchal relationships, and anti-LGBTQ views under an aesthetic guise. It’s time to stop saying that tradwives aren’t political.