Some interesting, though not very surprising, findings.

Who is most likely to fall for fake news? - UBC News https://news.ubc.ca/2025/04/misinformation-susceptibility-who-falls-for-fake-news/

America's fight against misinformation and disinformation appears to be on the wane. @AxiosNews reports on record-low levels of trust in the media, a bipartisan drop in enthusiasm for restrictions on false online content, and the gutting of government bodies once focused on combating mis- and disinformation.

https://flip.it/mjAXqV

There are invisible rulers who control the destinies of millions. It is not generally realized to what extent the words and actions of our most influential public men are dictated by shrewd persons operating behind the scenes. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda

MAGAts worship tRump like he’s the messiah of the stock market and border walls. But it’s not insight—it’s brain fog. Fed a steady diet of Fox lies and propaganda, they traded critical thinking for cult merch. #MAGA #TrumpCult #FoxNewsLies #Disinformation

Poynter: MediaWise’s Teen Fact-Checking Network expands across Europe. “Misinformation spreads online faster than ever these days — and it knows no borders. That’s why MediaWise’s Teen Fact-Checking Network, the Poynter Institute’s media literacy initiative, continues its global expansion. The TFCN is a group of young people who teach media literacy by debunking viral claims online. […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/22/poynter-mediawises-teen-fact-checking-network-expands-across-europe/

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/nsf-science-disinformation-research-grants-cancelled/

#Censorship under the guise of #internetregulation

@netzpolitik.org: How did your focus shift?

*Nighat Dad: We’ve seen governments in our region introduce #regulations under the guise of addressing online harms such as #disinformation, terrorism, and #cybercrime. But when we looked more closely, it became clear that these #laws were often being used to suppress dissent and curtail #freeexpression online

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/global-majority-house-how-activists-want-to-bring-global-majority-perspectives-into-eu-tech-policy/#netzpolitik-pw

Can #AI help us talk to dolphins? Maybe. Is the US eliminating its #disinformation office? Yes. Was that #girlboss spaceflight ridiculous? Absolutely. All that and more in this week's newsletter

#Russians can just hand #Musk any ridiculous piece of #disinformation and he'll dutifully pass it into the minds of hundreds of millions.

More shocking news for researchers studying #disinformation and related topics in the US, as National Science Foundation (NSF) cancels respective research grants. @sarahscire.com reports for @niemanlab.org

National Science Foundation ca...

“To social media giants, content is content; the cheaper it is, the less human labour it involves, the better. The outcome is an internet of robots, tickling human users into whatever feelings and passions keep them engaged.”
#AI #Disinformation #SocialMedia
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/21/ai-slop-artificial-intelligence-social-media

The Russian #disinformation network Matryoshka has launched its first large-scale campaign aimed at #Moldova

https://theins.press/en/news/280763

Schrödinger’s China

The mechanism by which ideas are disseminated on a large scale is propaganda, in the broad sense of an organized effort to spread a particular belief or doctrine. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda

Gotta be freaking kidding… with such GOP congressmen, you don’t need Nazis in charge…

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/16/2316826/-GOP-congressman-blames-Shapiro-for-arson-attack-against-Shapiro

This invisible, intertwining structure of groupings and associations is the mechanism by which democracy has organized its group mind and simplified its mass thinking. To deplore the existence of such a mechanism is to ask for a society such as never was and never will be. To admit that it exists, but expect that it shall not be used, is unreasonable. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda

In theory, every citizen makes up his mind on public questions and matters of private conduct. In practice, if all men had to study for themselves the abstruse economic, political, and ethical data involved in every question, they would find it impossible to come to a conclusion without anything. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda

That is how Putin’s disinformation machine works… lie, and then lie about that and lie a bit more. So nobody knows the truth anymore.

#putin #disinformation

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/20/europe/ukraine-easter-ceasefire-violations-intl/index.html

For the sake of simplicity and practicality, that party machines should narrow down the field of choice to two candidates, or at most three or four. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda