What you see is (not) what you get: genAI-powered scams on Vinted
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Flagged and Ignored: Testing X’s Response to EU Sanction Violations
Executive Summary Background Under the current EU sanctions regime against Russia, Russian state media outlets and affiliated figures are banned…
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Who’s afraid of the electric car? The Narrative War Delaying Climate Action in Europe
A joint report by Science Feedback and Newtral reveals that climate disinformation on transport is not the result of isolated…
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Online misinformation pays. Why? Taking stock of a broad range of evidence
This report examines the financial infrastructure that enables misinformation in Europe through a broad analysis of advertising and monetization practices across major social media platforms and services offering ads on the open web (Facebook, Twitter/X, YouTube and Google Display Ads).
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Slay News’ Frank Bergman isn’t a real person. We investigate who’s running misinformation site
Science Feedback investigation uncovers Slay News’ links to Paul Roughsedge, co-founder of One Fox Digital, a UK-based IT consultancy.
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Sanctioned but Thriving: How Online Platforms Fail To Address the Widespread Presence of Entities Under EU Sanctions
given the ease with which such illegal content was discovered, Meta, Google, X/Twitter, TikTok and Telegram’s compliance teams should investigate why they seem not to have taken sufficient action to limit access.
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An unfair (algorithmic?) advantage: a popularity premium for low-credibility accounts on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram before the 2024 European Parliament elections
Analysis of YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram data in the run-up to the 2024 European Parliament elections campaign highlight a substantial “popularity premium” benefitting low-credibility accounts when compared to a control group of high-credibility accounts
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Despite Community Notes, most content reviewed by fact-checkers in Europe goes unaddressed on X/Twitter
While X is presenting the crowd-sourced Community Notes system as a substitute for professional fact-checking, our results show that in a European context, Community Notes (and more broadly, X’s content moderation systems) fail to identify the posts flagged by professional fact-checkers, leaving misleading and oftentimes highly-viral content unaddressed.
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Twitter/X fails to act on Doppelganger-related notices
it appears that X has left the network almost completely untouched: of the 663 tweets that were online as of the report’s publication on 4 September, 656 were still accessible as of 25 September.
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European Union: Sanctioned Russian media entities and individuals’ content accessible on Telegram
Report co-author: Saman Nazari, Alliance4Europe This report is the fifth in a series looking at major online platforms’ enforcement of…
