| Date | Title | Description |
| 04.09.2024 | The Digital Battlefield: Chinese Influence Operations Targeting U.S. Elections | In the age of information, the battlefield has shifted. No longer confined to the physical realm, conflicts now play out in the digital space. As the U.S. approaches its presidential election on November 5, 2024, a new threat looms large: C... |
| 03.09.2024 | National Politics | China-linked ‘Spamouflage’ network mimics Americans online to sway US political debate | “One of the world’s largest covert online influence operations — an operation run by Chinese state actors — has become more aggressive in its efforts to infiltrate and to sway U.S. political conversations ahead of the election,” Jack Stubbs... |
| 03.09.2024 | US voters targeted by Chinese influence online, researchers say | A Chinese social media influence operation is impersonating US voters, denigrating US politicians and pushing divisive messages ahead of the Nov 5 presidential election in the United States, new research by intelligence company Graphika sho... |
| 25.06.2024 | How adversarial AI is creating shallow trust in deepfake world | Don’t miss OpenAI, Chevron, Nvidia, Kaiser Permanente, and Capital One leaders only at VentureBeat Transform 2024. Gain essential insights about GenAI and expand your network at this exclusive three day event. Learn More
With 87% of America... |
| 19.05.2024 | Guerrilla influencers and AI news anchors, China is ramping up its propaganda machine | From influencers to state media, China’s propaganda machine is embracing AI – but there are limits to what tech can do with bad storytelling, writes Ruby Osman
The generative AI game has a new player: Chinese state media. Over the past mont... |
| 22.12.2023 | Child sexual abuse pictures are found in a database that's used to train AI image generators | Tech Child sexual abuse pictures are found in a database that's used to train AI image generators
Tom Carter
2023-12-22T15:25:41Z
Share icon An curved arrow pointing right.
Share
Facebook Icon The letter F.
Facebook Email icon An envelope. ... |
| 08.12.2023 | There's been a creepy rise in people using AI apps to 'undress' women in photos, data shows | AI is increasingly being used to generate fake nude images. Lidiia Moor/ Getty
Redeem now
AI apps and websites that create fake nude images are seeing a rise in the number of visitors.
Analysis firm Graphika found a group of 34 such platfor... |
| 16.05.2023 | Addressing Media Capture | For years, industry, governments, and civil society have grappled with how to address the potential harm from state media while protecting people’s right to information in the digital domain. In some cases, the harm from state media can be ... |
| 24.03.2023 | How Forcing TikTok To Completely Separate Its US Operations Could Actually Undermine National Security | Back in August 2020, the Trump White House issued an executive order purporting to ban TikTok, citing national security concerns. The ban ultimately went nowhere — but not before TikTok and Oracle cobbled together “Project Texas” as an atte... |
| 24.08.2022 | Meta, Twitter Remove Network of Accounts That Pushed Pro-Western Narratives | Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. and Twitter Inc. have removed accounts that pushed pro-Western content to audiences in the Middle East and Russian-speaking Central Asia, including posts critical of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, accordin... |
| 28.10.2021 | A Brief History of Online Influence Operations | The Wall Street Journal’s Facebook Files series resumed last week, revealing that the platform took action against an online campaign to set up a new right-wing “Patriot Party” after the Jan. 6 insurrection. Earlier this month news outlets ... |
| 01.09.2021 | Graphika Appoints Disinformation Technologist to Leadership Team | |
| 22.07.2021 | A Government Practitioner’s Guide to Countering Online Foreign Covert Influence | Emerging from the fog of two decades dominated by counterterrorism, another national security wind is sweeping through public discourse: online covert influence operations. Like terrorism, the threat of covert influence can only be mitigate... |
| 26.06.2021 | The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post | Ilari Papa argued that U.S. strategic competition with China has served as the impetus for a growing U.S.-Albania relationship in this week’s Foreign Policy Essay.
Jen Patja Howell shared an episode of the Lawfare Podcast which covers the h... |
| 25.06.2021 | Today’s Headlines and Commentary | The Justice Department sued Georgia over a voting law passed by its Republican-led legislature aimed at restricting votes, reports the New York Times. The lawsuit is the most aggressive enforcement of the Voting Rights Act since a 2013 Supr... |
| 24.06.2021 | The Lawfare Podcast: Information Operations, Then and Now | This week on Arbiters of Truth, our podcast on our online information ecosystem, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Camille François, the chief innovation officer at Graphika, about a new report released by her team earlier this mon... |
| 07.06.2021 | Russian accounts still active on pro-Trump sites -researchers | June 7, 20215:10 PM UTC
TechnologyRussian accounts still active on pro-Trump sites -researchers
Joseph Menn
4 minute read
A Donald Trump mask sits on a vendors table outside of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando,... |
| 05.02.2021 | Huawei Attempts To Rebuild Trust By Using... Fake Twitter Telecom Experts | So we've noted that a lot of the accusations that Huawei spies on Americans on behalf of the US government are lacking in the evidence department. The company's been on the receiving end of a global blocklist based on accusations that have ... |
| 05.02.2021 | Huawei Attempts To Rebuild Trust By Using… Fake Twitter Telecom Experts | So we’ve noted that a lot of the accusations that Huawei spies on Americans on behalf of the US government are lacking in the evidence department. The company’s been on the receiving end of a global blocklist based on accusations that have ... |
| 15.01.2021 | India is Witnessing a Crisis of Trust in its COVID Vaccines | Last month, a former Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh tweeted an efficacy comparison between UK’s Moderna vaccine, and the two vaccines being rolled out in India (developed by AstraZeneca-Oxford and Bharat Biotech). Moderna was placed at 94... |
| 08.10.2020 | Parler, Gab, Other US Social Media Platforms Allegedly Linked to Russian Trolls | CJ Robles, Tech Times 08 October 2020, 12:10 am
After running a disinformation campaign in the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections, another set of Russian trolls were identified to be operating amid the campaigns for the November U.S. election... |
| 15.09.2020 | Moving Beyond Fears of the ‘Russian Playbook’ | In February 2019, I sat in a French bakery in Charlotte, North Carolina, interviewing A., an activist and community organizer who had been targeted by the Russian “troll farm” known as the Internet Research Agency (IRA). Together, we’re doi... |
| 10.09.2020 | The Lawfare Podcast: Ben Nimmo on the Return of the Internet Research Agency | This week on Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Alina Polyakova and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Ben Nimmo, the director of investigations at Graphika. Ben has come on the podcast before to discuss how he researches and iden... |
| 13.08.2020 | Graphika helps technology companies fight back against fake accounts interfering in US elections | “The research, put together by Graphika, details the actions taken by a network dubbed “Spamoflauge Dragon,” a pro-Chinese spam network. Prior to being taken down by Google-owned YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, the network of spammers — some... |
| 15.06.2020 | How Platforms Can Prevent Misinformation Like #dcblackout | On June 1, citizens in the nation’s capital awoke to terrifying news after a night of protests. According to many Twitter users, late in the night, government security services had cut off communications and protestors had disappeared in th... |
| 21.04.2020 | With the coronavirus, usually distinct conspiracy groups turn to a shared interest | The coronavirus pandemic’s global presence and ubiquity in everyday life is a perfect storm for misinformation, as conspiracy theorists from different corners of the web converge on a shared news topic—the only topic, at the moment. From th... |
| 16.04.2020 | The Lawfare Podcast: Camille François on Covid-19 and the ABCs of Disinformation | On this episode of Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Camille François, the Chief Innovation Officer at Graphika, where she works to identify and mitigate disinformation and misi... |
| 15.04.2020 | Pro-Iran accounts blamed the US for the coronavirus in latest social media disinformation campaign | As the coronavirus wreaks havoc on economies and populations around the globe, the chaos also presents a unique opportunity for disinformation efforts.
According to a new report from social analytics company Graphika, which tracks online di... |
| 07.01.2020 | Facebook bans deceptive deepfakes and some misleadingly modified media | Facebook wants to be the arbiter of truth after all. At least when it comes to intentionally misleading deepfakes and heavily manipulated and/or synthesized media content, such as AI-generated photorealistic human faces that look like real ... |
| 21.12.2019 | Facebook Removes Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Accounts with AI-Generated Photos | Staff Reporter, Tech Times 21 December 2019, 05:12 am
(Photo : Geralt via Pixabay)
Facebook has removed two unconnected networks of accounts, pages, and groups from its platforms Facebook and Instagram for engaging in Foreign and Government... |
| 07.12.2019 | Reddit links UK-US trade talk leak to Russian influence campaign | Reddit has linked account activity involving the leak and amplification of sensitive UK-US trade talks on its platform during the ongoing UK election campaign to a suspected Russian political influence operation.
Or, to put it more plainly,... |
| 24.10.2019 | Russian operatives sacrifice followers to stay under cover on Facebook | By Jack Stubbs
5 Min Read
LONDON (Reuters) - Efforts by Russian influence campaigns to stay undetected on social media ahead of next year's U.S. elections are undermining their ability to gain followers and spread divisive political message... |
| 27.08.2018 | Graphika visualizes Twitter’s filter bubbles in the US | It’s no surprise that political discourse in America is divided — especially online. And last week in MIT Technology Review, data visualization company Graphika brought those divides to life with 3D, colored depictions of the kind of filter... |
| 05.03.2018 | Lavrock Ventures Closes First $25M Fund To Back Cybersecurity Startups | A D.C.–area venture capital firm closed a $25 million fund to back cybersecurity startups, according to a report in VentureBeat.
Lavrock Ventures, which is based in McLean, Va., first appeared on local radars in 2016. The firm is led by man... |
| 05.03.2018 | Lavrock Ventures closes first $25M fund to back cybersecurity startups: report | A D.C.–area venture capital firm closed a $25 million fund to back cybersecurity startups, according to a report in VentureBeat.
Lavrock Ventures, which is based in McLean, Va., first appeared on local radars in 2016. The firm is led by man... |
| 05.03.2018 | Lavrock Ventures Closes First $25M Fund To Back Cybersecurity Startups | A D.C.–area venture capital firm closed a $25 million fund to back cybersecurity startups, according to a report in VentureBeat.
Lavrock Ventures, which is based in McLean, Va., first appeared on local radars in 2016. The firm is led by man... |
| 02.03.2018 | D.C.-based Lavrock Ventures courts cybersecurity startups with $25 million fund | Silicon Valley is home to an abundance of VC firms, all of them competing to get in on the next big deal. But VCs also exist (and succeed) outside of the Bay Area. While Washington, D.C. may not be an obvious location to establish a venture... |
| 02.03.2018 | D.C.-based Lavrock Ventures courts cybersecurity startups with $25 million fund | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Silicon Valley is home to an abundance of VC firm... |
| - | Chinese exile Guo Wengui uses misinformation network to push unproven drugs to treat Covid | Wealthy Chinese exile Guo Wengui is using his online misinformation network to promote the use of unproven treatments for Covid.
Guo as recently as last week pushed the drugs ivermectin and artemisinin as Covid treatments.
He has also pushe... |