Republicans bring back fake electors in battlegrounds https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/04/trump-fake-electors-return-election-denial-00186977?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication #Financialcrime/fraud #Electionsecurity #Disinformation #Misinformation #SocialMedia #Department #Elections #Security #Defense #Courts #Rights #Fraud #Media #Poll

Fascism starts slowly until it doesn't. Not only Bezos and the billionaires who are hedging and hoping to remain untouched/unharmed if trump wins. How about the National Archives rewriting — whitewashing — history —
https://thepit.social/@acdha/113414969541895673
h/t @acdha
[The Atlantic: What it feels like when Fascism starts https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/12/the-oppermanns-book-holocaust-nazi-fascism/672505/]
#USpol #USpolitics #USelections #election #elections #Harris #Walz #HarrisWalz #vote #VoteBlue #VoteSmart #misinformation #disinformation #fascism

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #westbank / #opt / #destruction / #unrwa / #disinformation

„Israeli bulldozers damaged the office of UN aid agency UNRWA in the West Bank's Nur Shams camp on Oct 31, the agency's chief said (…).
Mr Philippe Lazzarini, who heads the UN Palestinian refugee agency, said (…) that the office was severely damaged and was no longer usable. The Israeli military (…) denying responsibility for any damage to the building.“

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/unrwa-chief-says-israeli-forces-damaged-agencys-west-bank-office-israel-disputes-claim

#Truth #Democracy, #justice & #respect
vs. #TrumpVirus / #GQP #media & #Musk/Vlad #Disinformation

📺 NEW MEIDAS SHORT
Trump hates Puerto Rico. He always has and always will.

https://x.com/MeidasTouch/status/1851679232189173917

Angela Benander, a spox for the #Michigan SoS’s office, said, “It speaks to the efforts that we are not going to tolerate any attempts to circumvent the #law.”

Election ofcls across the country are worried about effectively an insider threat—that elected ofcls steeped in #Trump #disinformation could disrupt the process.

Already in MI, the state has taken over supervision of elections in Shelby Twp, where a #Republican clerk was charged w/a #felony for his role in the 2020 #FakeElectors scheme.

AFP: #Trump v #KamalaHarris: #Disinformation aims to shake faith in US vote"

This isn't an Election. It's a sElection, of people... ACTORS literally; Kamala the "cool cop", Trump, the "WrestleMania Heel", Bernie, the "Socialist Firebrand" who was never a socialist for one day, and ofc, Biden... The "kindly daft grandpa". These personas are carefully groomed by the billionaires who picked them and MARKETED THEM to us in the MEDIA THEY OWN. That INCLUDES AFP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc3fKb1qOY4

#Disinformation & Democracy Conference 2024 - https://edri.org/take-action/events/disinformation-democracy-conference-2024/ #desinformacion #journalism #periodismo

Full article: Perceptions of #misinformation salience: a cross-country comparison of estimations of misinformation prevalence and third-person perceptions - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2375256 #journalism #paper #disinformation

The #BMJ (@bmj_latest) just updated its policy not to publish research funded by the #tobacco industry.
https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj.q1169

The policy has two rationales, that tobacco causes enormous harm and that tobacco companies are guilty of systematic #disinformation about that harm.

I hope this is a warning to other companies and industries guilty of deliberate, systematic disinformation about their products.

#Medicine

#OpenAI finds its #tech being used for #propaganda & #US 2024 #ElectionInterference

#ChatGPT maker OpenAI found #Russia, #China, #Iran & #Israel groups using its #technology to #influence global political discourse, highlighting concerns #generative #ArtificialIntelligence is making it easier for state actors to run covert #propaganda campaigns as the presidential election nears.

#ForeignDisinformationCampaigns #disinformation #generativeAI
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/30/openai-disinfo-influence-operations-china-russia/

The War in #Ukraine Through the Prism of Visual #Disinformation and the Limits of Specialized Fact-Checking. A Case-Study at Le Monde https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21670811.2024.2332609?af=R #paper #factchecking #journalism #periodismo #Ucrania #desinformacion

X Filled With Disinformation and Fake News About Israel-Hamas War | Tech Times
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/297351/20231010/x-filled-disinformation-fake-news-israel-hamas-war.htm

#Xitter
#XTwitter
#Disinformation
#FakeNews
#Israel
#Hamas
#Gaza

Claims on #X and #Telegram include downplaying 7 October #Hamas attack and allegations #Palestinians are faking scenes of suffering. #Disinformation

#Israel-Hamas fake news thrives on poorly regulated online platforms | #IsraelHamasWar | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/11/israel-hamas-fake-news-thrives-on-poorly-regulated-online-platforms?utm_source=press.coop

Based on research by @marcowenjones: a clear division of labour between 22 “generals”, who post the content, and about 1,900 “minions” who amplify the post by liking them. These are divided into cells, so each post by a general is not simply liked by the entire 1,900 army of fakes […]〞
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2023/dec/09/cop-28-global-heating-could-hit-3c-warn-politicians-as-climate-summit-continues?page=with:block-65743ff88f08782fbd9a5f8b#block-65743ff88f08782fbd9a5f8b

#disinformation #inauthentic #UAE #COP28 #greenwashing #astroturfing