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PolitUkladchik, a Russian AI-generated satirical news program “demonstrates how the Kremlin is beginning to use AI as a tool for spectacle and as a shield for plausible deniability,” writes @mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social in a Reality Check Commentary.

www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/russias-de...

Fin du thread. 10/10. Voici le lien vers l’audit de @newsguard.bsky.social
Bravo à @mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social et à Chine Labbé www.newsguardtech.com/fr/special-r...

As to why they're obsessing over us at @newsguard.bsky.social -- it seems this report from our team (link below) struck a nerve.

www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/russian-di...

"According to misinformation tracker NewsGuard, the campaign...takes advantage of high-profile events to pump out fabricated content from various publications, including ABC News, BBC and most recently POLITICO."

www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Whatever you think of NewsGuard’s approach or the usefulness of its labels, the decision speaks to how the internet, political landscape, and notions of collective truth have polarized beyond recognition since 2018. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/lang...

Quite a big moment, Newsguard moving away from the terms misinformation and disinformation.

It's been something I've been thinking about for a while. The terms have become almost as weaponised as the likes of "fake news" and can be off-putting.

www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/commentary...

In the run up to the 2024 election, media outlets, think tanks, and policymakers warned of AI-generated misinformation. Using data compiled by NewsGuard, @mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social writes that the real threat is AI amplifying existing disinformation in polished and authoritative language.

"The Pravda Network appears to be designed and created solely to affect … AI chatbots," said McKenzie Sadeghi, AI and foreign influence editor at disinformation monitor NewsGuard." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Great conversation with @drmarkjacobson.bsky.social and @jimludes.bsky.social about the Pravda network's effort to infiltrate AI: open.spotify.com/episode/5CTb...

Big far-right podcasts are pushing the false narrative that Ukraine is selling US weapons to cartels.

@mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social tracks how the propaganda spread from a QAnon influencer to a Russian network of fake news sites, then to Tucker Carlson.
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/how-the-kr...

Fin du thread. 17/17. Félicitations à Natalie Huet, Chine Labbé et Sadeghi Mckenzie pour ce travail d’enquête et d’analyse aussi remarquable qu’indispensable. Lien vers le rapport : newsguardtech.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?...

One insightful comment from @mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social : Russia Used to Deny Interfering. Now it’s Celebrating its Successes

The Truth About Russia’s New ‘GFCN’ : @mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social: "As fact-checkers in the U.S. are laid off [...] Russia is seizing the moment — not to debunk falsehoods, but to discredit the very concept of #factchecking. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/commentary...

Russian propoganda is reportely influencing AI chatbot results

“If there’s one thing we’ve learned from tracking Russian disinformation at NewsGuard, it’s that when Moscow makes false claims about the West … it often serves as a foreshadowing of the Kremlin’s own actions,” writes @mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social

www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/commentary...

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AI slop can be found on social media and some 'news' websites.
Is it a threat to the information ecosystem?

@marinaadami.bsky.social spoke to @swachter.bsky.social, @mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social and David Caswell to find out:
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/ai-gene...