Sohan Dsouza

NOV/05 🇪🇺🗞️🧑‍💻🧑‍🏫 I'll be at the FIMI Research Cluster's Horizon Europe projects (ARM Project EU + DE-CONSPIRATOR + ADAC•io + RESONANT) Joint Final Conference "Strengthening Democratic Resilience Against FIMI: Research Insights, Policy Outputs and Future Directions" in Brussels. #FIMI #EU #infOps #disinfo

🙏 Thanks for the featured profile, Valinor Intelligence. #OSINT #disinfo #infOps #infoDisorder #investigators #UK

🚨UPCOMING WEBINAR Flops and VLOPs: Monetisation, Meta and the DSA Facebook paid creators $3B last year. Who’s checking where it goes? WHAT TO FIX’s Belén Luna Sanz unpacks their DSA complaint against Meta. ⏰ 29 Oct 14:30-15:30 CET 👉 Register on our new DisinfoHub: hub.disinfo.eu/events/flops...

Elon misspelled "Russia"

#factCheck According to Claire Fox on BBC Politics Live just now ( youtu.be/tl3sXYruORg?... ), the ongoing French riots feature "no tricolores around", but only "Palestinian flags or Moroccan flags". Well, she must be limiting her media consumption to nationalist sources because in actual fact …

How Israel has redrawn the map since the October 7 terrorist attack

Just remember, people are now asking these questions to AI chat apps, which are engineered to be sycophantic with users.

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting Germany. The campaign promotes a false narrative that the German government has allegedly introduced laws to temporarily house migrants in private households along with the forced installation of smart locks

What does the DSA mean for platform monetization? Join our Policy Manager Belén Luna Sanz and @disinfo.eu on 29 October to discuss our complaint against Meta and the gaps in monetisation enforcement and reporting. www.disinfo.eu/29-october-f...

Scientists hope it could be used to reconstruct a person’s inner thoughts, mental images, or even dreams.

Oh, come on!

«The first priority was to discredit the United States, the United Kingdom, and NATO; the second was to convey the “truth” about the war in Ukraine; and the third was to persuade Germans to oppose what the team called “ineffective sanctions policy.”» #Russia #infOps #disinfo #Kremlin #UK #NATO #USA

Applications for the British Academy/Wolfson Fellowships are now open. The scheme aims to support UK-based early-career researchers who want to engage in both research and public engagement. It is expected up to six awards will be available. Find out more: https://bit.ly/4zHPzp3

I penned a love confession note to a lass I fancied, but she rejected me over my terrible handwriting. I remain the world's most illegible bachelor.

It’s the Networks, Stupid cepa.org/article/its-...

I myself haven't done so before, but I think that throwing in a smoked joint of pork would significantly improve this stew I'm making. Just my add-hock hypothesis.

I'm close to being a single-issue voter on this. Along with on badly parked eBikes.

😑 No fscking way …

Who is in favour of bringing Roman numerals back into regular use? I for one.

⚡️Ukraine welcomes Baltic push to ban Russian grain transit through EU. "It is important to see this initiative now being advanced at the EU level," wrote Agriculture Minister Taras Vysotskyi.

During our reporting we asked Spotify why synthetic artists weren’t required to disclose their invented identities. Six days later, they announced a new “AI persona badge” which has now appeared on Danny Bones' profile. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

We also spoke to artists who had worked with the men behind Danny Bones about their involvement in the music industry and the rise of AI-generated rap. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hVI...

Baghdad Bob, meet DC Dick.

A company deeply embedded in digital advertising weaponized ads to help infect 45+ devices at the news network Al Jazeera with Candiru spyware. In this new @citizenlab.ca report, we present the first public technical confirmation of a zero-click mercenary spyware attack delivered via targeted ads:

Big, with @noupside.bsky.social: It turns out that the majority of Community Notes published on X aren’t just AI-generated, they’re AI-generated by X itself! Renée and I discuss how this happened and what it might take to course correct a program we — despite everything — continue to see value in.

Across 20 campaign posts targeting the US midterms, we proved with verifiable evidence that Matryoshka artificially inflates view counts and other engagement metrics. While the average post in thie campaign shows 56K views on X, only ~2.1K (3.8%) of them could be organic.

Our latest: Russian disinformation operators are deploying an army of bots to inflate view counts of fictitious posts about celebrities and Democratic candidates ahead of the US midterm elections. Thanks to @antibot4navalny.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

If the UK does get split, will those moaning about the "Yookay" have to come up with new pejorative sobriquets for multicultural society in each new country?

Hashing out the nuances and limits of free speech in the age of social media and genAI, in London with @mchangama.bsky.social of @justitiadk.bsky.social and Jeffrey Howard of UCL. I disagreed on some points (mainly platform KYU/transparency obligations), but agreed on most others.

🚨New Webinar: Monetised Slopaganda Is your feed flooded with AI slop? Platforms pay for it. Join Aleksandra Atanasova of Reset Tech ⏰ 22 Oct 14:30 CEST on how monetisation programmes fuel AI political clickbait, from deepfakes to misinformation. 👉Register via our NEW DisinfoHub: hub.disinfo.eu

Four days after Musk wrote, “Zelensky has gone too far.” @financialtimes.com #ukraine www.ft.com/content/3708...

Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.

In den vergangenen Tagen kursierte online die Falschmeldung, russische Social Bots seien nach Angriffen auf Yandex-Rechenzentren zum Erliegen gekommen. Das stimmt nicht. Es wäre aber auch falsch anzunehmen, dass der Angriff keine Auswirkungen hat. Zu den Hintergründen lest ihr im neuen Blogartikel:

62% of Brits would support a law prohibiting the #circumcision of children for non-medical reasons. Are you one of the 62%? Join our campaign 👇 www.secularism.org.uk/religious-su...

The US government used to stand up for civil society, not brief against it. But that’s exactly what it did last week when a few researchers dared to ask if the US posed a foreign interference and information manipulation threat. My write up—and advice: open.substack.com/pub/wicziped...