FRI JAN/23: ⚛️🕵️🧑💻🧑🏫 I will be presenting a webinar on online information disorder phenomena and tactics, and on investigation of these, for the Secular Student Alliance
🗓️ https://secularstudents.org/webinars/exposing-and-mitigating-online-mass-manipulation/
#OSINT #SOCMINT #infOps #mediaLit #socialMedia #platforms #disinfo #misinfo
🧑💻🕵️🤖🛡 I was featured on Intel Focus' Intelligence Spotlight podcast, speaking with Qais Alamdar about information warfare evolving in the age of AI, and the challenges and opportunities for researchers and OSINT/SOCMINT investigators in the counter-infops/-misinfo space.
🎧▶️ https://www.intelfocus.org/podcasts/inside-the-future-of-information-warfare-amp-ai-before-2030-with-sohan-dsouza
#OSINT #SOCMINT #AI #genAI #infowar #infops #disinfo #misinfo #natsec
🇬🇧🧑💻🗯🗳 I just featured in a live stream at Nathan Ormond’s channel “Digital Gnosis”, talking about influence operations, misinformation, propaganda, and strategies of political polarisation in the UK.
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOZRvelQP1A
#infops #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda #UK #politics #polarization #OSINT #SOCMINT #astroturfing
🕵️🧑💻👺🌏 My seminar at the @maxplanckgesellschaft Institute for Human Development's Center for Humans and Machines; on my investigation of a high-spend, months-long, cross-platform, international, merc-proxied influence operation; and on my investigation of patterns and infrastructure of misinformation spread fomenting the 2024 UK summer riots; has been published by the institute.
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMnA0uflj60
📄 https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/events/39890/59082
#UK #Europe #infops #disinfo #misinfo #platforms #OSINT #SOCMINT
🧑💻📲📲🧑💻 ARTE just released its documentary on the "phone farm" phenomenon in Vietnam: industrial-scale online astroturfing enabled by specialized software providers and a market in hacked/boilerplate accounts. It features my and @marcowenjones' findings from our investigation last year of an influence operation that employed one of these outfits.
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjW-jdKpsw8 (👀 13:37)
#infops #phoneFarms #Vietnam #inauthentic #astroturfing #OSINT #TheQatarPlot #Meta #Facebook #platforms #socialMedia
🧑💻🕵️🧑🏫🇬🇧 The recording of my and @marcowenjones' webinar for the Central London Humanists, on our investigations of international cross-platform influence operation "The Qatar Plot", and of misinformation spread during the Southport-spinoff riots that followed in the UK, has been published.
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmmTWleCCXs
#misinformation #SouthportRiots #UK #infops #influenceOperations #disinformation #astroturfing #socialMedia #webinar
〝Issue One recently hosted a panel discussion to dig deeper into the issues covered in our most recent report: "Flooding the Gap: How Big Tech’s Failures Empowered Foreign Adversaries and Undermined the 2024 U.S. Election."〞
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L_Tf027V6U
«Researchers at non-profit organisation Reset Tech, Check First and EU DisinfoLab found evidence of co-ordinated posts about Georgescu on social media and stated that Meta had also failed to enforce its own policies, which “demonstrates Meta’s failure to follow the European Commission’s recommendations to comply with the DSA”.»
https://www.ft.com/content/2855bf6f-4b40-412d-8249-64c90370bbd2
#Romania #elections #EU #infops #DSA #regulation #tech #platorms #democracy
Education, yes, but transparency too.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/special-series/disinformation-social-media-facts.html
Worth noting: both known American gov-run covert astroturfed online influence operations ("ChinaAngVirus"; and the CENTCOM psyop exposed in "Twitter Files" #8, and separately analyzed by SIO/Graphika) started during the first Trump administration. We can expect to see more of this during the second.
Sohan Dsouza
