United24 Media: Moscow Allocates $2.15 Billion for Disinformation Campaigns Against the West. “Russia has allocated 185 billion rubles ($2.15 billion) to fund disinformation campaigns directed against European Union and NATO countries, marking a 50% increase compared to the previous year.”

Euromaidan Press: Russia is manipulating global AI chatbot ecosystems with fabricated websites, leaked documents show. “Leaked internal documents reviewed by Bloomberg News reveal a large-scale Russian information operation aimed at reshaping online knowledge ecosystems, including search engines and AI chatbots, through networks of fabricated reference sites and coordinated ‘Wikipedia-style’ […]

Dartmouth College: How AI-Generated Cartoons Reshaped Taiwan’s 2024 Protests. “Tracy Weener ’26 and Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science Herbert Chang ’18 set out to study the digital side of the protests. Their paper, published this month in Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, identifies a new tactic in political warfare: AI-generated […]

Futbol Chronicle: Fake Photos and AI Crowds Have Turned the World Cup Into an Information War. “He was an electrician, some said. A bus driver who played football on the weekends, said others. It was a beautiful story, the amateur who walked off a building site to stun a superpower, and it was shared hundreds of thousands of times. It was also completely false.”

The Oaklandside: Who’s behind the AI-generated social media posts targeting Oakland’s mayor?. “The website and social media account allude to alleged scandals in the mayor’s past and lay blame for virtually all the city’s problems on her while posting AI-generated images depicting Lee in imagined scenarios, dining on lobster in a German mountain resort and drinking champagne with a […]

Poynter: Opinion | Fact-checkers, don’t quit now: A call for endurance at GlobalFact 2026. “The International Fact-Checking Network brought together more than 300 journalists and researchers from across the globe this week in Vilnius, Lithuania, for GlobalFact 2026, the 13th annual conference. This essay is adapted from the opening welcome of the IFCN director.”

The Guardian: Attorney general tells department to stop using X amid UK disinformation concerns. “The attorney general for England and Wales has told his office to no longer post on X, making it the first UK government department to stop using the Elon Musk-owned platform amid increasing worries about its use to incite violence and racism.”

Source New Mexico: Firm behind New Mexico Medicaid campaign recruits influencers to promote Project Jupiter data center. “The marketing agency behind New Mexico’s award-winning Medicaid re-enrollment social media campaign is recruiting influencers to promote Project Jupiter, the controversial artificial intelligence data center under construction in Doña Ana County.”

Duke Reporter’s Lab: 2026 census: Fact-checking losses continue amid funding pressure, but most projects persist. “For the first time in the Duke Reporters’ Lab count, three-times as many fact-checkers closed their doors as opened them last year. Our tally shows 10 new fact-checking projects in 2025, compared with more than 30 that stopped posting.”

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