85% of people worry about online disinformation, global survey finds

Jon Henley. The Guardian. 7 November 2023 More than 85% of people are worried about the impact of online disinformation and 87% believe it has already harmed their country’s politics, according to a global survey, as the United Nations announced a plan to tackle the phenomenon. Audrey Azoulay, director general of the UN’s culture body, Unesco, told […]

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How to find country information using OSINT

by Arno H.P. Reuser 31 October 2023Reuser’s Information Servicesa@reuser.biz | http://www.opensourceintelligence.biz Introduction The OSINT Pathfinder training programme teaches participants a structured, systematic and planned OSINT Methodology in finding relevant, reliable and actionable information from open sources, such as country information for international relations and conflict studies. I have thus decided to publish a two part […]

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Rules of engagement issued to hacktivists after chaos

By Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has, for the first time, published rules of engagement for civilian hackers involved in conflicts. The organisation warns unprecedented numbers of people are joining patriotic cyber-gangs since the Ukraine invasion. The eight rules include bans on attacks on hospitals, hacking tools that […]

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How a chatbot encouraged a man who wanted to kill the Queen

By Tom Singleton, Tom Gerken & Liv McMahon. Technology reporters, BBC News. 7 Oct 2023 The case of Jaswant Singh Chail has shone a light on the latest generation of artificial intelligence-powered chatbots. On Thursday, 21-year-old Chail was given a nine-year sentence for breaking into Windsor Castle with a crossbow and declaring he wanted to […]

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WeChat: Why does Elon Musk want X to emulate China’s everything-app?

By Peter Hoskins & Fan Wang BBC News Earlier this week Elon Musk rebranded Twitter to X – another step in his plan to emulate Chinese mega app WeChat. Mr Musk has long said that he wants to transform his social media firm, which he bought last year for $44bn (£34.4bn), into a much larger […]

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Election disinformation campaigns targeted voters of color in 2020. Experts expect 2024 to be worse

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO Updated 6:08 AM CEST, July 29, 2023 CHICAGO (AP) — Leading up to the 2020 election, Facebook ads targeting Latino and Asian American voters described Joe Biden as a communist. A local station claimed a Black Lives Matter co-founder practiced witchcraft. Doctored images showed dogs urinating on Donald Trump campaign posters. None of […]

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Google what our chatbot tells you… says Google

Google is warning users not to fully trust Bard for reliability. The urgent advice is to reference and validate the answers Bard gives with the Google search engine. Users have found that Bard may give wrong answers or even totally makes up the answers. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66303877 Google what our chatbot tells you… says Google Tom Singleton, […]

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