Working in the domain of #disinformation countering / #verification? Here's an interesting #cfp:

The #Cambridge Disinformation #Summit will convene global thought leaders to discuss research regarding the efficacy of potential interventions to mitigate the harms from disinformation. Papers will be selected for presentation at the Summit by an interdisciplinary committee.

https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/cambridge-disinformation-summit-2025/

The call is open until 25.10.24.

The summit will take place in Cambridge (UK) in April 2025.

Cambridge Disinformation Summit (2025) - Cambridge Judge Business School

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"We tend to believe fake news shared by distant social media contacts more than by close friends, even with trust controlled."

Interesting insight from an interesting paper by Babajide Osatuyi and Alan R. Dennis (recently published in the Decision Support Systems journal):

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167923624001088

#misinformation #disinformation #socialmedia #trust

Elon’s your dimwitted right-wing uncle who falls for any nonsense that crosses his FB page, but with billions of dollars and his own private social media company.

It’s amazing and sad that he’s convinced so many people that he’s some visionary genius.

https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-share-fake-news-uk-rioters-detainment-camp/

#elonmusk #fascism #disinformation

Elon Musk shares fake news claiming UK rioters will be sent to ‘detainment camps’

The X owner pushed a made-up headline from a far-right British party on his platform, before deleting it.

^{Andrew McDonald (POLITICO)}

GAI and LLMs: The future of verification? 🤖🔍 Some tools could be a game-changer, but we need to tread carefully.

@lxplm discusses the potential, challenges, and ethical implications:
https://innovation.dw.com/articles/gai-llms-content-verification-proceed-with-caution

#AI #disinformation #verification #factchecking #tools

GAI and LLMs in Content Verification: Proceed. With Caution.

Alexander Plaum on the boon and bane of generative artificial intelligence in the field of verification and fact-checking.

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Strong yes.

For lack of a more authoritative reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZ/comments/1bfto4a/youre_being_targeted_by_disinformation_networks

Not that the US hasn't done the same https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/

With #disinformation , everybody loses.

(I am not oblivious to the fact that I may be the victim of disinformation about disinformation. But those sources, and some of their sources, seemed trustworthy to me.)

"Generative artificial intelligence (#GAI) adds a new dimension to the problem of #disinformation. Freely available and largely unregulated tools make it possible for anyone to generate (...) fake content in vast quantities. (...) But there is also a positive side. Used smartly, GAI can provide a greater number of content consumers with trustworthy information"

– writes our colleague Julius Endert in this DWA post (which is part of a learning guide on tackling disinfo): https://akademie.dw.com/en/generative-ai-is-the-ultimate-disinformation-amplifier/a-68593890

Generative AI is the ultimate disinformation amplifier

Generative artificial intelligence tools allow anyone to quickly and easily create massive amounts of fake content.

^{Julius Endert (Deutsche Welle)}