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A US-Sanctioned Oligarch Ran Pro-Kremlin Ads on Facebook—Again
Meta earned over $200,000 from an ad campaign, seen by millions, that pushed pro-Kremlin talking points and undermined local elections…
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Greece’s New Political Star Is a TikTok Creation
On the night that Greece’s biggest left-wing party voted for its new leader, all anyone could talk about was pizza.…
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A Doctored Biden Video Is a Test Case for Facebook’s Deepfake Policies
During the 2022 US midterm elections, a manipulated video of President Joe Biden circulated on Facebook. The original footage showed…
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An Alleged Deepfake of UK Opposition Leader Keir Starmer Shows the Dangers of Fake Audio
As members of the UK’s largest opposition party gathered in Liverpool for their party conference—probably their last before the UK…
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White Supremacist Active Clubs Are Breeding on Telegram
Telegram is also a hugely powerful recruiting tool, giving this movement a platform free of censorship or restrictions to spread…
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Slovakia’s Election Deepfakes Show AI Is a Danger to Democracy
After a few hours they were ready to confirm that they believed the recording had been altered. Their label, which…
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X Fires Its Election Team Before a Huge Election Year
X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has fired its head of threat intelligence, Aaron Rodericks, and four other members…
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The US Congress Has Trust Issues. Generative AI Is Making It Worse
“In most of these areas, you already have existing statutes that prohibit the behaviors that we want to continue to…
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Meta Isn’t Enforcing Its Own Political Ads Policy, While the 2024 US Election Looms
“America’s education system has been hijacked by one side,” Marissa Streit, PragerU’s CEO, told Time earlier this month. Some of…
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It Costs Just $400 to Build an AI Disinformation Machine
In May, Sputnik International, a state-owned Russian media outlet, posted a series of tweets lambasting US foreign policy and attacking…
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