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It hasn't been easy, and we continue to be attacked for defending our shared reality.

It was our small donors that kept us alive this year. Please chip in today and help us keep up the fight in 2026 ☀️ givebutter.com/ASP-GT-2025
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December 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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ninajankowicz.com
🦃 November

🇬🇧 gave evidence before UK parliament parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

🟰spoke at a Gender Equity Summit on tech organized by California First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom
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Foreign Affairs Committee
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December 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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🎃 October

🇷🇺 explained Russia's weaponization of the European Court of Human Rights to launder disinformation americansunlight.substack.com/p/russias-la...

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Russia’s Lawfare Playbook: How the Kremlin Weaponized Human Rights Courts to Launder Disinformation
When the Kremlin wants to legitimize a lie, it doesn’t just hold a press conference – it files a lawsuit.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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ninajankowicz.com
🎒 September

🚫 Partnered with @indicator.media to expose how DSA non-compliant ads for nudifiers were running unchecked in the EU

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Meta ran 4,000 more ads for AI nudifiers. That may not be the worst part.
The company is making it easy for the advertisers to conceal their identity
indicator.media
December 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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ninajankowicz.com
🏖️ August

🇳🇴 Partnered with Norwegian environmental advocacy group Bellona to further investigate Russia's weaponization of green energy debates and presented our work at Norway's largest political festival.

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December 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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💐 April & May

🚨 Sounded the alarm about American autocracy in European Parliament
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‼️ worked to raise awareness about the censorship lie infecting the State Department americansunlight.substack.com/p/little-mar...
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December 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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💐 April

🏛️ Wiped the floor with Matt Taibbi and other "censorship industrial complex" liars in Congress americansunlight.substack.com/p/calling-bs...

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Calling BS on Republicans' Free Speech Hypocrisy
Everything's a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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ninajankowicz.com
🍀 March

📈 Started tracking Trump's censorship crusade in our weekly Substack newsletter. americansunlight.substack.com/s/last-week-...

🌍 Published a report about Russia's weaponization of environmental and tech issues. static1.squarespace.com/static/6612c...

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December 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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ninajankowicz.com
❤️ February

🤖 Coined the concept of "LLM grooming" and released a pioneering report on Russia's use of the tactic. static1.squarespace.com/static/6612c...

🙅🏻‍♀️ Ran a free online safety training for hundreds of feds worried about getting doxxed by DOGE.

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A pro-Russian content aggregation network, Pravda, appears to be set up to flood large-language models with pro-Kremlin content, The American Sunlight Project has found. Over the past several months, ASP researchers have investigated 108 new domains and subdomains belonging to the Pravda network, a previously-established ecosystem of largely identical, automated web pages that previously targeted many countries in Europe as well as Africa and Asia with pro-Russia narratives about the war in Ukraine. ASP’s research, in combination with that of other organizations including France’s VIGINUM, brings the total number of associated domains and subdomains to 182. The network’s older targets largely consisted of states belonging to or aligned with the West. Notably, this latest expansion includes many countries in Africa, the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and North America. It also includes entities other than countries as targets, specifically non-sovereign nations, international organizations, languages, and prominent heads of state. The top objective of the network appears to be duplicating as much pro-Russia content as widely as possible. With one click, a single article could be autotranslated and autoshared with dozens of other sites that appear to target hundreds of millions of people worldwide. ASP researchers also believe the network may have been custom-built to flood large language models with pro-Russia content. The network is unfriendly to human users; sites within the network boast no search function, poor formatting, and unreliable scrolling, among other usability issues. This final finding poses foundational implications for the intersection of disinformation and artificial intelligence (AI), which threaten to turbocharge highly automated, global information operations in the future.
December 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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🧵 Despite a really difficult funding environment, in 2025, we:
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December 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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It’s been a difficult year for organizations that are fighting disinformation. But because of you, we continue to shine a light on the lies that undermine our democracy.

We're thankful for you. 🦃 ☀️

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We're thankful for you 🦃
Help us keep shining a light on truth in 2026 ☀️
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November 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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-embarrass liars in Congressional hearings
-do cutting edge research that exposes foreign propaganda
-hold tech platforms accountable for their failures to protect women & girls

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☀️ Shine a Light on Truth with The American Sunlight Project ☀️
Donate to combat disinformation with The American Sunlight Project today!
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November 26, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Climate disinformation is delaying responses to extreme weather events & climate solutions

We’re demanding that governments commit to upholding information integrity as a non-negotiable for climate action. #COP30

@caadcoalition.bsky.social👇
https://caad.info/analysis/reports/cop30-open-letter/
November 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
americansunlight.org
Today at noon ET we're hosting a workshop on Substack Live covering the basics of Foreign Influence & Election Interference Campaigns!

Join us as a paid supporter and get access to this and other workshops led by @ninajankowicz.com & @benmshultz.com ☀️

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Tomorrow: ASP's Foreign Influence Primer
Join Nina & Ben on Substack Live Thursday at Noon ET
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November 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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ninajankowicz.com
What struck me about Illia’s analysis is how familiar this tactic has become to the United States in such a short time; this sort of lawfare is being used by the MAGA movement to great success, particularly against disinformation researchers.
October 31, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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ninajankowicz.com
Proud to publish this piece from my former student, who writes that Russia's lawfare in the European Court of Human Rights is "transforming [it] into an unwitting accomplice in one of the most sophisticated disinformation operations of the modern era.”

americansunlight.substack.com/p/russias-la...
Russia’s Lawfare Playbook: How the Kremlin Weaponized Human Rights Courts to Launder Disinformation
When the Kremlin wants to legitimize a lie, it doesn’t just hold a press conference – it files a lawsuit.
americansunlight.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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ninajankowicz.com
Every week, @americansunlight.org catalogues the Trump Administration’s most recent attacks on the First Amendment in its “Last Week in Censorship” series. The list of infringements on Americans’ rights to free expression is now worryingly long. 1/

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Last Week in Censorship: October 21-27, 2025
From university strongarming to border patrol brutality, the Trump administration doubles down on suppression while journalists flee self-censoring newsrooms
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October 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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😶 Via @americansunlight.org: 'Alan Greenblatt, a 20-year veteran journalist and editor of Governing magazine, resigned October 10 after his parent company ordered staff to avoid articles that could “draw the attention of the Trump White House.”' americansunlight.substack.com/p/last-week-...
Last Week in Censorship: October 21-27, 2025
From university strongarming to border patrol brutality, the Trump administration doubles down on suppression while journalists flee self-censoring newsrooms
americansunlight.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Check out our CEO @ninajankowicz.com on @wired.com's new YouTube series, DisinfoNation shining a light on conspiracies ☀️
davidgilbert.bsky.social David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · Oct 29
NEW:

DisinfoNation, a new YouTube series presented by....me

Episode one, which discusses how conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirks' assassination emerged, evolved and persisted, features the amazing @bostonjoan.bsky.social and @ninajankowicz.com

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Why Conspiracy Theories Took Hold When Charlie Kirk Died | WIRED
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October 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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“Trump doesn’t even need to see posts from Loomer for them to have an impact,” @ninajankowicz.com told @washingtonpost.com. “Her relationship with the president is well known, and the underlings in the administration need to act quickly to prove their fealty.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Inside Laura Loomer’s rise: ‘Obsessive’ research, Oval Office visits
Laura Loomer has leveraged a personality that friends label “obsessive” and an extreme loyalty to Trump to emerge as a powerful figure in the president’s orbit.
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August 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
americansunlight.org
It’s not always the loudest voices, it’s the reaction they provoke.

In @washingtonpost.com , @ninajankowicz.com explains how far-right actors test messages online, and how MAGA loyalists in government race to fall in line.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Inside Laura Loomer’s rise: ‘Obsessive’ research, Oval Office visits
Laura Loomer has leveraged a personality that friends label “obsessive” and an extreme loyalty to Trump to emerge as a powerful figure in the president’s orbit.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
americansunlight.org
Don’t forget to stay up to date with ASP on our Substack! We are tracking the Trump Administration’s censorship so you don’t have to in our Last Week in Censorship series. americansunlight.substack.com/p/last-week-...
Last Week in Censorship: June 22-28, 2025
Maryland federal judiciary hit with unprecedented lawsuit, tourist denied entry over political meme, and university president resigns under federal pressure.
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July 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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July 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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andyjabbour.bsky.social
👋🏽 thx for the cool merch, @ninajankowicz.com & @americansunlight.org, I am, indeed, hot for democracy. Let’s hold on to it. ☀️ 🇺🇸
July 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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"The most engaging content online is often the most enraging content." Check out tips from Nina Jankowicz on how to spot and combat disinformation:
www.youtube.com/shorts/dYSCJ...
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dYSCJtyXi3U"
July 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM