This level of insensitivity and even celebration of death, particularly death of children, is really alarming and depressing.

Very few images make it out of Iran but they already paint an awful picture of what people are going through

Internet is blocked for the 27th day, while being bombed heavily. We can’t even see what is happening inside.

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout has entered its 20th day, with international connectivity unavailable to the general public for over 456 hours. The incident is now the longest recorded shutdown in Iran's history, surpassing the blackout imposed during protests in January.

Big Brother coming powered by extensive tracking, supercharged by powerful AI;

“Refuge, the UK’s largest specialist domestic violence organisation, has revealed that referrals to its Technology-Facilitated Abuse and Economic Empowerment team rose by more than 62% in 2025 compared with the previous year.”

The Iranian people, amidst US and Israeli bombardments and threats from the IRGC and the Islamic Republic, have had no internet access since the start of the war. Being cut off from the world and each other deliberately puts their lives in grave danger.

Bombing infrastructure used by civilians is not ethical, and should be stopped; there is immediate and devastating impact for Iranians but this goes beyond, imagine all the unnecessary pollution from bombing oil reserves across the country

My heart aches for the people of Iran; this war needs to stop, there should be a diplomatic way to change the regime without this increasing level of violence and destruction.

Disconnected and suppressed by their government, while being bombed;

“More than 30 people have died in ICE custody since January, 2025.” Excerpt From “Autopsy of Canadian in ICE custody indicates his death was preventable, experts say” The Globe and Mail apple.news/A9lPzX3qlTHW... This material may be protected by copyright.

This is why we shouldn’t store sensitive data using US technology, and need Canadian solutions.

Update #IranProtests (144): Een zeer belangrijk artikel in The Guardian over #IranMassacre: "Verdwenen lichamen, massabegrafenissen, 30.000 doden. Wat is de waarheid over de protesten in #Iran?" Deel het alstublieft! www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Update #IranProtests (154): Belangrijk verslag v The Guardian over de arrestatie vd Iraanse chirurg Dr. Alireza Golchini: "Hij werd op gewelddadige wijze gearresteerd in het bijzijn v zijn vrouw en zoontje v slechts 11 jaar. Ze hebben hem tijdens de arrestatie > www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

This treatment is what million of protesters were subjected to this past days, systematic violence, ordered by the head of all armed forces, aka the supreme leader, and carried out in all the streets of Iran, 20k dead. Don’t let any other narrative dilute where the main responsibility lies.

Iran regime claimed that they are providing security and keeping isis out, despite the economic and environmental mess they made, rationing basics like water and electricity; and exponential inflation. Now, they openly kill people. How do they justify their rule is beyond me.

There are now report of 12000 death by the Iranian regime and there is a looming US attack on another middle eastern country. It is frustrating to see this level of disengagement on the topic here. I refuse to go to X, even if missing on something as this important to me.

Iranian people are being massacred by their own regime, in complete silence. Reports that do get out, say they are attacking civilians with military machine guns with an order to killing and scare, and more than 2000 dead in 24 hours.

Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications: Applicant names, profiles, demographics Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores

Last call for submission to information integrity workshop at ICDM, deadline extended to September 12th. We are very interested to hear about your works on future of the information space, misinformation, generative AI, toxic speech, polarization, etc. sites.google.com/view/fiirwor...

CFP for workshop on future of information integrity research (AI-driven fact checking, deepfakes, etc.). Deadline August 29th (tiny, regular and demo papers); please consider submitting your work: sites.google.com/view/fiirwor...

If you are interested in a unified collection of common misinformation detection benchmarks, check out our recent repo @hf.co

CFP for workshop on Social Simulations with LLMs at COLM 2025, Montreal, submission deadline: June 23. Looking for works on modelling and simulating social media behaviour using LLMs, with a focus on agent-based simulations, behavioural evaluation, and online harms. sites.google.com/view/social-...

📢 Announcing the third edition of Temporal Graph Learning Workshop at KDD 2025 📢 📜 Call for Papers: Submit your work on Temporal Graphs, Evolving Relational Data, Spatio-Temporal Graphs & more! 📅 Submission Deadline: May 20 AoE (Openreview) sites.google.com/view/tgl-wor...

Join our team at Mila and help build trustworthy AI! We're hiring Postdocs & Interns to work on a cutting-edge project tackling misinformation. Combine LLMs, RAG, and temporal graphs to assess online credibility. PhD or strong CS/ML background needed. Apply here: forms.gle/ATdvNcZxYFcd...

We are looking for interns for the coming Winter and Summer, if you are interested, apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🌟 Join our Temporal Graph Learning Reading Group! 🌟 📅 Every Thursday ⏰ 11 AM EST 📍 On Zoom (link on our website!) Let's discuss cool research on temporal graphs! 🪩🥳👩‍🏫 Hope to see you there!

1/5 AI is increasingly–even superhumanly–persuasive…could they soon cause severe harm through societal-scale manipulation? It’s extremely hard to test countermeasures, since we can’t just go out and manipulate people in order to see how countermeasures work. What can we do?🧵

We are looking for candidates: apply.workable.com/mila-2/j/6B3... ; please advertise within your networks. This is a mix of engineering and research position with potentially strong impact, and part of a big interdisciplinary team.