🌐Online #disinformation is cross-platform by nature.

🚫Yet issues w/ #dataaccess hinder transparency, accountability, and policy-oriented #research .

👉In a new EDMO Blog post, Kalina Bontcheva calls for new measures to encourage cross-platform data access: loom.ly/Sbe2iWw

We submitted a contribution to European Commission's draft guidelines (and respective consultation) under the #DSA for the mitigation of systemic risks online for elections. Alex. Alaphilippe & Joe McNamee of EU DisinfoLab sum it up. Kalina Bontcheva Symeon Papadopoulos EUPublicationsOffice 🇪🇺 veraai.eu/posts/mitigati…

What does CrowdTangle's demise signal for data access under the DSA? Megan A. Brown, Jo(sephine) Lukito, and #KaiChengYang write that they are organizing researchers and journalists to find out.
techpolicy.press/what-does-crow…

On 8/14 CrowdTangle will be shutdown - replaced by the inferior MCL. Meta makes big promises but we have no way of gauging its tools & access.
That's why, partnered w/ Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics, we are launching a #DataAccessAudit . If you work w/ #socialmediadata join us! bit.ly/3TNgduN

Ever wondered what parties spend money on in their campaigns? Didn’t have time to look at the 6,396 invoices parties submitted in 2019? We did!
New article with Sam Power @sliktor Andrew Barclay casts light on election campaign spending govandopp

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Researchers from Fraunhofer IDMT and mever at MKLab have created and published an Open Dataset of Synthetic Speech (ODSS). It's accessible to all and can be further expanded. Collaborations welcome! veraai.eu/posts/odss-an-…

Digital platforms are enabling the spread of New Climate Denial - playing a shameful role in delaying climate action & putting our future at risk.

Check out our findings ⤵️
counterhate.com/research/new-c…

studies (Nature etc.) that document COVID-19 affects brain health & lowers IQ
theconversation.com/mounting-resea…
#health #medicine #publichealth #covid

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'We found that media content on #Bulgaria & #Romania 's accession to #Schengen led to increased #Euroscepticsm '

💡Ahead of the #EPelections as well as Romania's crucial national #elections this year, Nicoleta Corbu presents insights from BROD's recent study at #EDMOsc24

Project participants of Horizon Europe🇪🇺 projects AI4Media TITAN - AI Coaching to Fight Disinformation and #AI4Trust have written & published a White Paper entitled #GenerativeAI and #Disinformation : Recent Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities. It was led by our Kalina Bontcheva 👇
veraai.eu/posts/white-pa…

My latest for Institute for Strategic Dialogue on how the CCP-linked Spamouflage campaign is targeting the US presidential race was featured in this piece by Tiffany Hsu in The New York Times nytimes.com/2024/02/15/bus…

You can read my full report here: isdglobal.org/digital_dispat…

This AI-generated video, circulating on Russian Telegram, claims to show a France 24 broadcast in which a presenter announces President Macron has cancelled a scheduled visit to Ukraine over fears of an assassination attempt.

France 24 never aired this, it's totally fake.

As a collaborative effort, under the leadership of our ⁦Kalina Bontcheva⁩, a new White Paper has been published. Topic: “ #GenerativeAI and #Disinformation : Recent Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities.” Reachable via ⁦European Digital Media Observatory⁩ edmo.eu/2024/02/13/new…

💬 For this month's edition of the ' #DigitalMediaLiteracy in EDMO Round Table', Media&Learning spoke w/ BROD about its activities, plans for the future and the current state of #MIL in #Bulgaria 🇧🇬 and #Romania 🇷🇴.

👉 Read the full interview: loom.ly/c4SzVtQ

The markets’ indifference (+15% after hours) to the headlines across America from historic Senate hearing yesterday exposing the covered up child harms of Facebook and Instagram says much about the control of the company, its advertising market power and its burying of risks. /1

Like Andrew Ng, I have observed a definite shift in the prevalent discourse about AI at Davos:
- Few people still talk about existential risk, and few people believe that current technology, even scaled up, will present an existential risk.
- Everyone agrees that open source AI

Reminder: there are two companies built on surveillance advertising valued over $3T. They’re the only two major tech companies that get a majority of their data from 3rd parties rather than use of their services. This includes mining your web and app history and publishers. 1/3

#Disinformation on the #ClimateCrisis is changing: a #NewDenialism increasingly targets laws, institutions or activists – as well as #RenewableEnergy solutions such as #WindFarms .

👉 Our #FactChecking network analysed key trends and narratives: loom.ly/Yy68Zww

You win, Google.