Fool me once: Russian Influence Operation Doppelganger continues on X and Facebook – French chapter
Fool me once: Russian Influence Operation Doppelganger continues on X and Facebook
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Fool me once: Russian Influence Operation Doppelganger continues on X and Facebook
Report co-author: Saman Nazari, Alliance4Europe This Flash report was made possible through a collaboration facilitated by the EU Election ISAC.…
Reputable news sources demonstrate transparency in all aspects of their operation. They disclose their sources of funding, identify staff who produce their content and clearly indicate their sources of information. If they commit errors, they openly acknowledge and correct these errors. Our investigation shows Leading Report exhibits none of these characteristics. The two individuals who run the website and its X/Twitter account appear to hold no relevant credentials in health, medicine or journalism.
The increasing number of measures to limit greenhouse gas pollution that can be expected in the future will certainly present opportunities for future weaponization and misrepresentation. Writers, editors, and journalists should be aware of these manipulation tactics when discussing the aftermath of COVID-19 restrictions or future climate policies, knowing that some actors are trawling for any evidence to boost the manufactured ‘climate lockdown’ outrage.
A study of accounts that have repeatedly published popular tweets linking to known misinformation shows that their collective popularity has significantly grown (on average, +42% interactions per tweet) since Elon Musk took effective control of the platform on 27 October 2022. These results appear to run afoul of Twitter’s commitments as a signatory of the EU Code of Practice on Disinformation.
Introduction As social media platforms try to tackle the spread of misinformation, their first challenge is the reliable identification of…