New report concludes that young people in the Western Balkan need enhanced practical skills to detect fake news on the internet and social media, but also improvements in online platforms' standards and transparency to make false information easier to recognise.
Radosław Sikorski also said that there is a "Russian fifth column" operating in Poland.
A religious congregation said it has initiated legal action after one of its priests was accused during a Senate hearing of receiving money allegedly linked to a flood control kickback scheme, calling the claims “false, malicious and defamatory.” In a statement, the SVD community categorically denied allegations against Fr. Flaviano Antonio Villanueva that he received […]
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By Brian Berletic, May 25, 2026 Attrition rather than territorial movement is increasingly becoming the
Pope Leo has released an encyclical about artificial intelligence, urging authorities to regulate the technology and warning that AI image tools have become a "powerful amplifier" for those spreading disinformation.
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We're being pushed into more conspiratorial thinking than the real conspiratorial situation warrants.
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The influencers compete for online attention with anti-Trump AI accounts.
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A new potential hantavirus case is under investigation on the remote island of Tristan da Cunha as contract tracing from the outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius continues.
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In an airy office in South Korea, workers comb through social media, uncovering AI-generated content whose growing sophistication is testing toughened election laws ahead of local polls. Experts warn that cheaper, more advanced artificial intelligence models are driving the global spread of online disinformation — a major concern in South Korea, which has adopted AI […]
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In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, I suggest a way to fundamentally change our relationship to just how fake social media is.
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Meddling by foreign adversaries threatens Canadian sovereignty and national security, the study found.
Diario Red América Latina and the Hondurasgate investigative portal published audio recordings that allege Argentine President Javier Milei contributed $350,000 to fund a regional disinformation campaign targeting left-wing governments in Mexico, Colombia, and Honduras. The recordings, dated January 30, 2026, capture conversations between former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández and…
The report released Thursday by the Senate committee on national defence and security comes after a years-long study dating back to the previous Parliament.
Facebook has been overrun with low-effort AI fakes inventing biographical details and celebrity connections for the man charged with trying to assassinate Donald Trump at a Washington press gala Saturday. Trump and senior administration officials were evacuated from the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner as sounds of gunfire rang from a floor above the ballroom, […]
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The new programme joins other services aimed at Moldova, Armenia, Belarus and Russian itself.
The boxing studio was small and designed in sleek black: black walls, black floors, big windows overlooking the snowy center of Warsaw. The women, some in their twenties, some decades older, some fit, some just getting there, stood in pairs. All were Ukrainian refugees who had found shelter in the Polish capital since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. The place smelled of new rubber with a…
Starmer attending an Iftar reception in 2025. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. 3,638 words Donald Trump is always on the lookout for insulting nicknames for his political enemies. Given his current falling out with Sir Keir Starmer over the Iran War, I would like to hereby suggest the President begin calling the dismal UK Prime Minister […]
The Trump administration continues to unravel the so-called "disinformation industrial complex" through a series of settlements that would bar federal agencies and advertising companies from working to stifle free speech under the guise of combatting mis- and disinformation.
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BIRN’s monthly update on digital rights and safety in the Western Balkans and Turkey highlights the most significant scams, data leaks, bomb threats and sexist and homophobic attacks across the region in March.
From anti-transgender narratives about Olympic swimmers to fabricated comments from right-wing politicians, a slew of Facebook pages managed from Vietnam are capitalising on Australia’s febrile politics to promote AI-generated articles on websites designed for profit. With names like “Swimming Secrets” and “Tennis Triumph”, the pages started in mid-2025 mimicking fan accounts posting athlete…
The answer is: Very likely not, at least not as long as MAHA embraces quackery and antivax pseudoscience—not that that didn't stop STAT News from ignoring the elephant in the room, vaccines, in search of a "kumbaya" moment between MAHA and public health.
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The head of a prominent anti-disinformation watchdog has warned of the dangers posed by AI chatbots, saying children are particularly vulnerable. “Social media broadcasts to billions, AI whispers to one,” Imran Ahmed, who heads the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), told a disinformation conference this week. “No society should build machines that can meet a […]
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Catturd — a right-wing pseudonymous account — routinely outperforms the _New York Times_ on X. The _Times_ has built a following of 53 million accounts, but its posts typically generate a few hundred likes or replies. Nate Silver, the statistician behind FiveThirtyEight and the Silver Bulletin newsletter, tracked X's top engagement accounts for 2026 and found them dominated by low-quality, highly…
Remember when the Biden administration set up something called the “Disinformation Governance Board” and the entire MAGA universe lost its collective mind? It was the “Ministry of Truth.” It was “government speech police.” It was the single most Orwellian thing any American administration had ever done in the history of civilization. Nina Jankowicz, the researcher […]
Kurdish investigative reporter Rusen Takva says the repeated blocking of his social media accounts shows how court-ordered content restrictions are being used to curbing press freedom in Turkey.
“Is Netanyahu real or AI?” an internet headline blared, pointing to a video that supposedly showed the Israeli prime minister with six fingers. But the clip was real. Speculation spiraled online that Netanyahu might be dead or wounded in an Iranian strike and that Israel was covering it up with a double generated by artificial […]
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If there is one area of political knowledge that remains poorly understood, it is geopolitics. This field examines international power relations (domination and resistance, colonization, imperialism, war) as well as the strategies that actors deploy to preserve or strengthen their…
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Tax season is upon us, and so are fears of identity theft. Here's how to eliminate the risks without breaking the bank.
At the launch of a report on Russian and Serbian disinformation in Kosovo, speakers said the country's media and institutions are struggling the respond to fake news, which is becoming increasingly hard to detect due to AI.
The lesson of the anti-EU backlash following the annulled polls in Romania last year is that election-related social media manipulation must be identified swiftly, long before polling day in Bulgaria.