Patrick Warren
@plwarre
Assoc. Professor in the John E. Walker Department of Economics at Clemson University. Disinfo, Pol. Econ. Active in @rotary and @LWV.
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http://pwarren.people.clemson.edu 26-02-2009 14:03:35
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Check out our new Clemson Media Forensics Hub work describing an RU affiliated campaign undermining Ukraine. Stories start with fake social media accounts, are disseminated through foreign media as paid content, and spread using a beltway news site - a site made using generative AI!
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Darren Linvill Patrick Warren Clemson University Why does all of this matter?
Because some of the fake stories about Ukraine published by DC Weekly, like the Zelensky luxury yacht story, have been echoed by members of Congress, including Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene and Senator JD Vance.
Posts like this from General Mike Flynn are the result of an ongoing and extremely successful Russian narrative laundering campaign we've been following here at Clemson Media Forensics Hub.
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Proud to contribute to this. If you want all the details, check out our Clemson Media Forensics Hub report tigerprints.clemson.edu/mfh_reports/3/
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New research exploring the role of Chinese social media trolls in discussions about the NBA and Daryl Morey 🗽🏀 back in 2019.
Proud of this team and the work they did.
Published open access with help from Clemson Media Forensics Hub
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
New WP alert! 📢
I am excited to (finally) release the working paper, 'Effects of Universal and Unconditional Cash Transfers on Child Abuse and Neglect,' joint with Lindsey Bullinger and Kerri Raissian. Paper here: nber.org/papers/w31733