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DE-CONSPIRATOR @DECONSPIRATOR

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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Sinan Ulgen@sinanulgen1
27 Jan 2025
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
Carnegie Europe@Carnegie_Europe
27 Jan 2025
📰 | NEW 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…
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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
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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

Standing up for democracy - Publications Office of the EU

This booklet gathers the research and innovation projects selected for EU-funding from the 2023 call for proposals “Standing Up for Democracy” of Horizon Europe’s Cluster 2.

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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. 🔗 lnkd.in/dQPtvAce
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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…

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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.

Kremlin runs disinformation campaign to undermine Zelensky, documents show

A covert Kremlin disinformation campaign targeted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with the aim of dividing Ukrainian society, documents show.

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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
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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
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Last month's Nature articles were fully dedicated to pioneering work on #disinformation and #fakenews. 🔎 lnkd.in/dh-F7yut
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The latest webinar by @DisinfoEU on innovative #AI technologies to combat #disinformation is now available 🔗 lnkd.in/edW9uVRh Upcoming: 🗓️ 4.07💡 When disinformation hits companies: 🔗 lnkd.in/gjr9MSuc 🗓️ 11.07 💡 False Façade and CopyCop🔗 lnkd.in/eAUK5w5w
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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 🌐 #DECONSPIRATOR #FIMI
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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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NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics@CSMAP_NYU
7 Jun 2024
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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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)@BrendanNyhan
7 Jun 2024
If you don't have access to the paywalled version, here is a read-only link: rdcu.be/dJ8Lt Please share widely!

Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)@BrendanNyhan
5 Jun 2024
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
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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…

Post-January 6th deplatforming reduced the reach of misinformation on Twitter

Nature - Difference-in-differences analysis indicates that the decision by Twitter to deplatform 70,000 users following the events at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 had wider effects on the...

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Massimo Flore@masflov
6 Jun 2024
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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Yevgeniy Golovchenko@Golovchenko_Yev
6 Jun 2024
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!
DE-CONSPIRATOR@DECONSPIRATOR
4 Jun 2024
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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.
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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
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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.
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This brings our two-day Foreign Information Manipulation-Interference (FIMI) research methods workshop to a close. It was a delight to bring together leading researchers of psychological, social, theoretical & computational aspects of FIMI. For future events, watch this space 🤗
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