🥼 @Max_Planck_CHM; 📚 computational social science, disinformation/polarization, crowdsourcing, OSINT; 🎓 @MIT @MediaLab, @DFRLab #DigitalSherlocks; 🦋+🦣
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Joined April 2010
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🇬🇧🕵️🧑💻🧑🏫 @BCS has published my recent presentation for them in London, on my investigations of international influence operations and misinformation spread affecting the UK, and OSINT/SOCMINT basics.
▶️ youtube.com/watch?v=PBhHVtKb…
#disinfo #misinfo #infops #OSINT #SOCMINT #UK – at London, England
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🧵Por que o Brasil está na nossa investigação? Anunciantes do Google registrados no Brasil veicularam anúncios racistas e antimuçulmanos para a Europa e anúncios anti-Hezbollah no Líbano. Eu e @SohanDsouza rastreamos seus registros, empresas e mudanças de conta. Veja como. 1/11
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🧵Why did Brazil feature in our investigation? Brazil-registered Google advertisers ran racist, anti-Muslim ads aimed at Europe and anti-Hezbollah ads in Lebanon. @SohanDsouza and I followed their advertiser records, companies and account changes. This thread shows how. 1/11
ALT World map of the campaign's targeting and delivery. Circles show recorded exposure per country: London 154 million, Paris 121 million, Washington 100 million, Rome 76 million. Lines run from payer locations to the countries targeted, including a cluster from Brazil, circled in red, labelled Social Media Para Empresa and Agência de Tráfego Pago, Google Ads advertisers, cluster B.
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🟢 PODCAST
"The Great Replacement Hoax...and other stories".
The three year, far right disinformation campaign aimed a polarising Europe and the UK.
@marcowenjones joins @GoldbergRadio
Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/1Ji…
Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=sUHtKO-6…
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Subthread 1# -Examples of how this campaign dynamically exploited European crises.
One of its channels was a Grand Theft Auto spoof
Ceuta - Days after the Ceuta crisis the campaign used it to portray the incident as part of the 'Islamization of Europe'.
1/9
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🔦A covert ad campaign pushing racist, anti-Muslim, anti-migrant and anti-Qatar propaganda has racked up more than 533 million recorded exposures across Europe, Lebanon and the United States, 30 different countries, since October 2023, according to a new investigation by researchers Marc Owen Jones and Sohan Dsouza. Its funder remains hidden, but several trails lead to Israel.
The campaign began with billboards in Lebanon blaming Iran and Hezbollah for the war, with Israel left out entirely. It then blamed Qatar, a key mediator between Israel and Hamas, with ads pressuring Sheikha Moza, the Emir's mother, over Israeli captives and urging boycotts of Qatari-owned brands. It soon escalated into "Great Replacement" conspiracy content describing Qatar as the hidden force "Islamising" Europe.
The operation spent over $1.2 million on Meta ads by mid-2024 alone. It ran dozens of fake front groups across six platforms and reached Times Square and a 2024 CPAC stage shortly before Donald Trump spoke.
Among the leads the researchers found:
▪️ A campaign poster traced to Johnnie Moore, the evangelical Trump adviser who later led the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, whose PR firm also publicized a campaign protest
▪️ A Wikipedia sockpuppet network linked to an Israeli IP address
▪️ Video files with Hebrew labels, made on a Sunday-to-Thursday workweek, pointing to an Israel-based production team
🔗 The report and a detailed thread are below. The operation is still running.
Huge news! For 3 years @SohanDsouza & I have investigated a covert paid ad campaign pushing anti-Muslim, anti-migrant & anti-Qatar hate speech across Europe, Lebanon & the US.
Today we publish Manufacturing the “Great Replacement”: 533M recorded exposures in 30 countries.
1/25
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Huge news! For 3 years @SohanDsouza & I have investigated a covert paid ad campaign pushing anti-Muslim, anti-migrant & anti-Qatar hate speech across Europe, Lebanon & the US.
Today we publish Manufacturing the “Great Replacement”: 533M recorded exposures in 30 countries.
1/25
NOV/05 🇪🇺🗞️🧑💻🧑🏫 I'll be at the FIMI Research Cluster's Horizon Europe projects Joint Final Conference "Strengthening Democratic Resilience Against FIMI: Research Insights, Policy Outputs and Future Directions" in Brussels (and the day after, if others want to meet up and chat). – at London, England
🔗 deconspirator.eu/joint_final… – at London, England
Maybe it has something to do with them all being perishable, and additionally of relatively low value too? – at London, England
🙏 Thanks for the featured profile, @Valinorint.
linkedin.com/pulse/community…
#OSINT #disinfo #infOps #infoDisorder #investigators #UK – at London, England
1. Insinuate/claim a double standard.
2. Get shown that it's indisputably not a double standard.
3. Resort to "but muh culture" arguments.
Every. Single. Time. – at London, England
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And for those moaning that this is a special accommodation needed for (a few minutes of) prayers taking up part of a path, have they seen streets outside popular London pubs (for most evenings)?
Say it with me: "sauce for the goose, …" – at London, England
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Hope that's no the reason you gave your boss. If they know the area or look into it even slightly they'll know you're full of shit. There's another pavement.
Fact check: bsky.app/profile/sohandsouza… – at London, England
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Matt Goodwin demanded to be fact-checked live on air when he claimed the UK spent "£100 million PER YEAR on family planning and condoms in Pakistan".
He then 'corrected' himself to £74.3 million, saying it was based on a "major news story from October 2025"
He was, of course, still wrong...
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ALT Screenshot of LBC tweet: How much has the UK actually spent on condoms in Pakistan? Henry Riley is sceptical about Matt Goodwin's numbers so the reform politician calls himself to be fact-checked live on air.
🇪🇺🗞🧑💻🧑🏫 "The Plots Against Europe: When a Covert Online Influence Operation Just Won't Quit"
Presenting this at the #Disinfo2026 conference in Vilnius, in the "Still Watching: Platforms Under Investigation" session. Come watch, and reach out to meet.
🔗 disinfo.eu/conference/ – at London, England
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In fact, it was so bad that there was a campaign called:
"Don't kid yourself. Without consent, it's RAPE"
(I know, it seems British men ALSO need to be taught about consent! - who knew 🤷♀️)
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ALT A woman in a military-style outfit stands close to a man in red military attire, who raises a drink, while another man sits alone, looking distressed.
ALT A distressed woman, partially clothed, is seated with her head in her hands, surrounded by empty bottles, emphasizing the serious issue of consent.
ALT A woman in a red dress holds a drink, while men in the background are partially visible, highlighting a serious message about consent.
ALT A man seated in a dim space and another man with an intense expression highlight consent issues in a bold campaign against sexual assault.