@ErikJonker

https://www.dw.com/en/lgbtq-community-is-there-a-backlash-in-europe/a-66675016

Russia's role in promoting queerphobia

Moscow used fears over grooming and recruitment of children to enact its "gay propaganda law" a decade ago. In 2012, the Kremlin had mentioned attacks on traditional families as one of the biggest threats to Russian national security. Other countries have since then followed suit.

However, the Kremlin's main aim isn't to target queer and trans Europeans, but to destabilize European democracies, says Datta.

#misinfo

Amazing! Just found out that bourbon biscuits actually use the same recipe and flavourings as custard creams! Just like M&Ms, the different food colourings they use creates an *expectation in your mind* that they taste differently, so they *really do*!! #misinformation #misinfo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%26M%27s

New #misinfo preprint! We (me + Victoria Halewicz + Joe Kable) developed a new way to measure how false accusations of misconduct lead to more negative impressions of mock political candidates even after a factual correction. Continued Influence Effects (CIEs) are more severe in people high in intuitive thinking and in people low in digital literacy. However, they are NOT worse among Republicans, even though Republicans are worse at accuracy discernment. (1/2) https://psyarxiv.com/5dmt4

so the plural of sphinx is sphinges? OK

… and the plural of syrinx [reed, pipe, tube, bird voice organ] is syringes? Mind a little bit blown.

… … and the singular of sponges is spunks? Mind teleported, ejected into higher plane instantly

(#misinfo)

@Stoori It's an easy mistake to make, but it's actually because the space needed under boats was measured in horses before they discovered the fathom and started measuring it in plimsolls #MisInfo

#FDA #RumorControlHub encourages Americans to #snitch on #misinfo spreaders

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-06-12-fda-rumor-control-snitch-on-misinfo-spreaders.html

Attorney implies rney; therefore picorney, microrney, desi-, hecto-, kilo-, megarney etc.

#siunits #misinfo

Tonight's #TIPteachers webinar: "Rumors, Misinformation
and Conspiracies Theories
on Your #FYP"

by Rachel Moran-Prestridge

Postdoctoral Fellow - Center for an Informed Public - University of Washington

#MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #Tiktok #SocialMedia #misinfo

Thread 🧵

#MattHancock deserves #jailtime for spreading #misinfo regarding #COVIDvaccines

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-04-27-matt-hancock-deserves-jail-online-safety-bill.html

2️⃣ Can #LLMs replace human annotation?

❌ not for expert taxonomies (#ImplicitHate) or parsing tasks (#ArgumentExtraction) [<40% acc.]

❔ maybe where objective ground truth (#misinfo) or common definitions (#emotions) exist [>70% acc.]

(but human-in-the-loop is recommended)

Are you a journalist interested in online misinformation, and how it connects to real world events like vigilante violence and police misconduct?

If so, please DM me an email address where I can send a press release on behalf of crime victims.

#misinfo
#onlinehate

Too bad I already have a #PhD. Fascinating project for polisci students interested in #misinfo.
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RT @NathalieBrack
#job #PhDposition the deadline is approaching
I am looking to hire a PhD student to work with me on the project post-truth politics and political parties.
Starting date: September 2023 or soon thereafter
More info👇
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/55910
@scpo_be @ECPR @ECPR_SG_Parties
https://twitter.com/NathalieBrack/status/1645799773302312961

https://archive.is/hEwOj

"Hodges, the BMC editor, said in a statement: “We take our responsibility to maintain the accuracy of the scientific record very seriously..."

No, you very clearly don't, otherwise we wouldn't be here now, would we? As academics we pay a stupid amount of money to publishers, precisely because they claim to protect us from exactly this bullshit.

#academia #publishing #antivax #misinfo

@dangillmor
@mmasnick

YouTube has no standards for the ads it accepts. As one example this obviously bullshit ad claims to "electrify your metabolism back to teen levels" with a scoop of nutmeg. Only a remote village of Vietnamese knew about - until now!

There is no option to report the ad as false/misleading/fraudulent. Only an option to "stop seeing this ad" which gives the un-serious options of "irrelevant/repetitive/inappropriate".

#Youtube #fraud #misinfo #ads #BigTech #Google #scams

WHAT!? I always cited my sources using URL's on the #birdsite! Great to know there's a penalty for people that are careful about spreading #misinfo. #twitteralgorithm

Fun fact: ”Bug’s Life” is actually a shot-to-shot remake of ”The Three Amigos”.

#misinfo #notActuallyAFact

Really interesting episode…
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RT @scopeconditions
📢 New ep!

We're bombarded with (political) #misinfo on social media. How can we learn to tell truth from lies?

@KhariBiskut tells us about her experiments in India 🇮🇳 that give voters tools to check #misinfo on Whatsapp. Do they work?

Listen here: https://www.scopeconditionspodcast.com/episodes/episode-33
https://twitter.com/scopeconditions/status/1630318097277022211

@stiofi @bikejourno

"#russia has nothing #china wants except cheap fossil fuel, and that's a buyers market right now."

I realize you were addressing tangibles here. russia as weak vassal also offers valuable or crucial intangibles to the #CCP:

1. heavily discounted fossil fuels
2. *nominal* pole in "multi-polar"... UN...
3. "bad cop" to CCP's self-depicted "good cop"
4. "socialist" era partnerships globally
5. global networks (fellow despots, militants, #propaganda, #disinfo, #misinfo, spies, disruptors...)
6. arms sales and customer poaching
7. "owning" #putin/russia is massive domestic propaganda victory for #CCP
8. rus as regressive, inward-looking #autocracy = great; any forward-looking democracy, esp. involving liberation of colonial territories = horror!

russia may not *have* much to offer, but in fact *provides* a great deal to CCP and Xi doesn't want putin's neo-imperial project to fail (entirely).

#MediaLit At least in the short term, AI is going to make our information landscape even more fractured, confusing, & polluted. The phenomenon of “AI Information Hallucination” will be challenging, as well as the aid / power these tools give to bad actors & sharers of #disinfo #misinfo #spam #malware etc.

oggi torno a parlare di #disinfo #misinfo #russa e gli ultimi sviluppi della #infowar del #Cremlino insieme alle analisi militari di ⁦@camporin1⁩ e le news dall’ #Ucraina di ⁦@VadymVietrov⁩ e tutti gli altri. Do tune in! https://www.clubhouse.com/room/ME6VwQ2d?utm_medium=ch_room_terc&utm_campaign=NGBZSv6E5-KWSy4jdRlQ5g-593250