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Tue, Aug 6, 2024

Hezbollah videos document usage of drones and weapons systems

Recent Hezbollah propaganda videos show surveillance drones monitoring sensitive Israeli sites, use of anti-tank guided missiles

Tue, Aug 6, 2024

Pro-Russian Facebook pages spread anti-French, anti-UN content in West Africa

Network of inauthentic pro-Russian pages spread false claims targeting elections, France, and the UN peacekeeping mission in CAR

by Valentin Châtelet

Advertising Africa

Thu, Aug 1, 2024

Russia-linked operations target Paris 2024 Olympics

Cross-platform efforts denigrated France's handling of the games and fomented fear of a potential terrorist attack

by Eto Buziashvili, Valentin Châtelet

Thu, Aug 1, 2024

China deployed anti-US narratives in chaos following Trump assassination attempt

Chinese messaging on state media and social media worked to position itself at a volatile moment in domestic US politics

China Disinformation

Wed, Jul 31, 2024

Lessons learned from South Africa’s 2024 elections

Independent media and civil society worked overtime to mitigate the spread of disinformation, while generative AI played only a limited role

Artificial Intelligence Democracy

Tue, Jul 30, 2024

Inauthentic Chinese X accounts amplifying Trump shooting and Biden withdrawal conspiracy theories

Spreading false and misleading anti-US narratives, the network highly resembles operation known as Spamouflage Dragon

China Disinformation

Mon, Jul 29, 2024

Fringe YouTube channels promote pro-Kremlin narratives in Africa

Channels attracted millions of views and hundreds of thousands of subscribers by using anti-Western content directed at African audiences

by Valentin Châtelet

Africa Cameroon

Thu, Jul 18, 2024

How Russian propagandists spun the Trump assassination attempt

Conspiracy theories, alarmism, and early attempts to link the shooting with Ukraine

by Emerson T. Brooking, Eto Buziashvili, Andy Carvin, Ruslan Trad

Illustration of the earth in the form of a computer chip, generated using Adobe Firefly

Wed, Jul 17, 2024

The sovereignty trap

How the promise of sovereign AI obscures its pitfalls

by Konstantinos Komaitis, Esteban Ponce de León, Kenton Thibaut, Trisha Ray, Kevin Klyman

Artificial Intelligence Digital Policy

Tue, Jul 16, 2024

Fake Cameroonian news sites spread pro-Russia, anti-France content

Fake Cameroonian outlets disseminated AI-generated voiceovers across Facebook and other social media platforms

by Valentin Châtelet

Cameroon Disinformation

Wed, Jul 10, 2024

Anti-Ukraine narratives spread following Kyiv children’s hospital attack

Narratives blamed Ukraine for the incident, accusing it of targeting itself or deploying air defense systems ineptly

by Ruslan Trad

Disinformation Ukraine

Tue, Jul 9, 2024

How Kenya’s tax bill protests spread online

After the bill's withdrawal, online conversations continued to call for President Ruto's resignation

by Digital Forensic Research Lab

Civil Society CrowdTangle