DE-CONSPIRATOR is a @HorizonEU funded research project that brings 13 European institutes to study Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI)
Joined February 2024
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Our interactions with LLMs will increasingly shape our knowledge of the world. In the field of international relations, LLMs will provide their input based on their sometimes fabricated world view or biases. What can go wrong? I have tested them. Read my latest @Carnegie_Europe
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Large language models are transforming how humans access information and view the world.
Policymakers should promote #AI literacy & develop tools to understand the inherent biases of generative AI tools, writes @sinanulgen1.
Read his latest ⤵️
carnegieendowment.org/resear…
Our project coordinator, @AkinUnver, and other partners are in #Riga for an exciting week packed with #FIMI-related events!
They will be attending:
1️⃣ Emerging Trends in Social Media 2024: socmediatrends.org
2️⃣ EU DisinfoLab Annual Conference: disinfo.eu/conference
Excited to share that DE-CONSPIRATOR is featured in the newly published 'Standing Up for Democracy' booklet by Research and Innovation Horizon Europe's Cluster 2!
📄 Read the full booklet here: op.europa.eu/en/publication-…
#DECONSPIRATOR #HorizonEurope #FIMI
We’re happy to announce that DE-CONSPIRATOR partners will be attending the EU DisinfoLab Annual Conference on 9-10 October 2024 in Riga!
This event brings together the entire counter-disinformation community to tackle pressing issues like FΙΜΙ.
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On Wednesday, the FBI filed in court by the FBI information that a Russian operation to manipulate German, French, Italian and U.K. politicians, businesspeople, journalists and other influencers has been going on.
➡️politico.eu/article/fbi-doss…
Documents show that Russia has been running a disinformation campaign to undermine Ukraine's president Zelensky.
washingtonpost.com/world/202…
The Kremlin's campaign led to hundreds of fabricated articles, created by troll farms and circulated in Ukraine and across Europe.
State-Sponsored Russian Media Leverages Meliorator Software for Foreign Malign Influence Activity
➡️ lnkd.in/eRuc8_KX
The authoring organisations are warning social media companies that Russian state-sponsored actors have leveraged the covert Meliorator software for FIMI
Meet the Antibot4Navalny, an anonymous group of #disinformation researchers, who work to blunt Kremlin’s efforts to confuse and spread #misinformation.
🔗 lnkd.in/e-7ic2CR
Last month's Nature articles were fully dedicated to pioneering work on #disinformation and #fakenews.
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The latest webinar by @DisinfoEU on innovative #AI technologies to combat #disinformation is now available
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Upcoming:
🗓️ 4.07💡 When disinformation hits companies: 🔗 lnkd.in/gjr9MSuc
🗓️ 11.07 💡 False Façade and CopyCop🔗 lnkd.in/eAUK5w5w
Yesterday, the DE-CONSPIRATOR consortium partners gathered for an engaging and productive online meeting to review our mid-year progress as the first semester of the project is completed!
Get inspired to deconspire by visiting deconspirator.eu 🌐
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Very proud that @AkinUnver, the scientific coordinator of @DECONSPIRATOR, is the author of the newly published European Parliament DROI subcommittee report "AI and human rights: Using AI as a weapon of repression and its impact on human rights"
europarl.europa.eu/RegData/e…
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Conventional wisdom says online misinfo is rampant, algorithms are at fault, & this makes us more polarized. In @Nature, @cerenbudak, @BrendanNyhan, @DavMicRot, @emilythorson, and @duncanjwatts debunk this myth, explaining what the research actually shows.
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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If you don't have access to the paywalled version, here is a read-only link: rdcu.be/dJ8Lt
Please share widely!
New in @Nature: Misunderstanding the harms of online misinfo nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Debunks unsupported claims about social media exposure/effects and shows low exposure concentrated in motivated fringe. We recommend holding platforms accountable for exposure in high-risk tails
A new #article suggests that deplatforming might have considerable effects on reducing #misinformation.
#Twitter's decision to deplatform 70,000 misinformation traffickers in response to the violence at the US Capitol on January 2021 is used as case-study
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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I was honored to be the keynote speaker at @DECONSPIRATOR workshop. During my talk, I focused on how #disinformation thrives on grabbing attention and pushing individuals towards extreme viewpoints. That's why empowering citizens is the most crucial defense.
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I have spent the weekend/Monday in Brussels at the "Foreign Information Manipulation-Interference research methods workshop" talking about our latest research on detecting pro-Kremlin disinformation. Really cool to see the latest research on this topic!
Our FIMI Research Methods Workshop begins with a policy keynote by @masflov - where he presents a historical genealogy of the concept of the "Western information space", and why a meaningful defense of this information space requires a global approach
Our final session features research at the frontiers of computational and big data studies on influence operations; from LLM optimization for misinfo detection to using Telegram data to predict missile strikes in Ukraine.
