A group publishing pro-Russia propaganda online is impersonating legitimate news outlets in an attempt to disseminate disinformation, Politico reported, citing misinformation tracking organization NewsGuard. The effort, known as Storm-1679, creates websites that mimic real news outlets and uses those sites to push fake news stories. They have published disinformation designed …
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On July 29, 2024, a man stabbed several people at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in the seaside town of Southport in northern England, killing three young children. As their deaths shocked the nation, rumors about the attacker’s identity quickly spread online. Far-right provocateurs like Andrew Tate — who was …
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Trolls, clout-chasers, and the merely clueless are flooding social media with clips from a military video game, passing them off as footage of the unfolding conflict in Gaza. The fake videos come as misinformation about the conflict overflows on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Following Saturday’s large-scale attack …
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China is behind the largest known covert propaganda operation ever identified on Facebook and Instagram, according to a new report by security researchers at Meta. Meta on Tuesday outed the authors of a four-year long influence campaign dubbed “Spamouflage Dragon,” which first appeared in 2019 to spread propaganda about Hong …
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A jury has found former internet troll Douglass Mackey guilty of violating people’s constitutional right to vote by disseminating memes encouraging Democrats to vote via text in the 2016 election. The decision comes after more than four days of deliberations. During the two-week trial, the prosecution presented testimony by MicroChip, …
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