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Would you consider these political deepfake ads a form of manipulation or just a new editing tool? $137 Million in A.I.-Generated Ads Flood the Midterms nytimes.com/2026/10/16/us/po…

$137 Million in A.I.-Generated Ads Flood the Midterms

Republicans have used A.I.-generated content more often than Democrats, ranging from subtle enhancements to convincing deepfakes.

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New Nature Health perspective 🧪 The invisible risks of AI-generated health information rdcu.be/VuS2jwQt6B3a We argue that these risks are serious, yet hidden from the institutions responsible for protecting public health w/ @mdeverna2 @yang3kc @YyjHarry
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Check out our full lineup of OSoMe Awesome Speakers for this semester and register at osome.iu.edu/events/speaker-…

OSoMe Awesome Speakers

OSoMe Awesome Speakers is a virtual event that aims to provide a platform for leading scholars and researchers to share their work and insights about social...

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Observatory on Social Media@OSoMe_IUOct 9
Don't miss James Shanahan as our next OSoMe Awesome Speaker! 🎙️ James Shanahan (Indiana University) 📌 Historical Fears About Media, The Case of TV Violence 🗓️ October 26 | 12pm ET 🔗 Register: iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/…
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🧪 AI agents are easily radicalized, particularly when messages resonate with their persona beliefs, raising concerns about the vulnerability of people who use them Preprint: doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.… w/ @ozgurcanseckin @shalmolighosh94 @KristinaLerman & al

AI Agents are Vulnerable to Radicalization

Large language models (LLMs) can influence people's beliefs, yet little is known about whether and how they can manipulate each other. To investigate this, we simulate conversations between two...

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Get in, folks: a new Russian disinfo campaign is targeting the midterms, specifically Democrats, in what seems to be the first attempt by the Kremlin-backed op to meddle in this year’s U.S. elections. They're faking celebrity videos attacking Dems and are...very stupid.
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Just another AI slop content farm futurism.com/artificial-inte…

How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into...

Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.

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Monetized Slopaganda: Social Media Monetization Is Financing an Industry of AI Political Clickbait and Deepfakes reset.tech/resources/monetiz…
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Replying to @BrandyZadrozny @antibot4navalny @elonmusk
Anyway, I guess I have to watch this space until November. If you see something, say something! ms.now/news/russia-election-…

A Russian disinformation campaign is doctoring celebrity videos to meddle in the midterms

The Kremlin-backed operation, known as Matryoshka, has Hollywood actors telling voters to disavow the Democratic Party and vote Republican.

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How misinformation and AI hallucinations are infiltrating (probably not only) Australia’s parliament theguardian.com/australia-ne…

‘Scary’: how misinformation and AI hallucinations are infiltrating Australia’s parliament

Exclusive: Guardian analysis reveals that dozens of policy submissions from across the political spectrum incorrectly summarise real research and invent or wrongly cite sources

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Long but worth the read: This is medical advice* The AI slop doctors of YouTube, the health disinformation they spread, the harm they cause, and the prompts instructing them to lie codysumter.substack.com/p/th… h/t @Mantzarlis
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New #CIKM paper: Adversarial Creation & Detection of AI-Generated Social Bot Content tl;dr: A model trained to separate social media users from their evil AI twins rocks at detecting AI bots in the wild! Try it: botometer.org Preprint: doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.…
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This is what passes for "independent reviews" these days... The CS conference-based publication system is broken beyond repair. linkedin.com/pulse/independe…

"Independent reviews"

R2. The proposed data-generation pipeline is well motivated.

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Political deepfake and AI-generated personas have persuasive power and many followers. Who's behind their influence campaigns? No way to know, and that's the point. substack.riddance.ai/p/this-… h/t @Mantzarlis

This AI-generated persona is a viral MAGA influencer

"Marwane" is an AI commentator with a brand, website, and a disciplined pro-Trump message.

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Two examples of AI swarms—influence campaigns by AI-generated personas we described in Science: 1/2. Hundreds of fake influencers selling snake oil nytimes.com/video/technology…

Video: The Fake Influencers Selling Wellness on Your Feed

The New York Times found hundreds of A.I.-generated doctors, healers and wellness influencers on social media touting the health benefits of supplements to American consumers. Many of these hyperre...

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An AI agent emailed me asking semi-coherent research questions. I sent a semi-coherent reply drafted by Gmail-Gemini.
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I researched misinformation, until the government stopped me | Opinion

A researcher's NSF grant termination reveals a broader attack on science funding and misinformation research, despite rising AI-generated falsehoods.

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Staggering number of people believe unproven health claims nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

‘Staggering’ number of people believe unproven claims about vaccines, raw milk and more

Nature - Survey results suggest a rise in questioning of scientific evidence.

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Fantastic article (as always from @kakape) on the role of AI in disinformation as well as research on it. science.org/content/article/…

To misinformation researchers, AI is a scourge—and a powerful new tool

Surge in generative AI is upending a field that was just finding its feet

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I'm briefly quoted in this long but important investigative piece about Storm-1516, the most potent weapon in Russia’s disinformation war. bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-…

Russian Disinformation War’s Most Potent Weapon Is Bending Realities

Storm-1516 campaign uses fabricated videos, phony websites and anonymous influencers to spread tales about election fraud, corruption and sexual abuse.

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AI is being used to generate fake MAGA users and content for political influence: nytimes.com/2026/04/17/busin…

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media

The artificial-intelligence-generated fake influencers have surged on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube in an apparent bid to hook conservative voters.

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