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North Korea’s trash-filled balloons cause South Korea’s Incheon international airport runways to briefly shut down
Flight delays due to bad weather, security scares or medical emergencies are the usual culprits we …
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China's propaganda actors may go rogue and try to influence the 2024 election, US intelligence says
Chinese leader Xi Jinping had reportedly promised President Joe Biden in November that China won't …
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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NATO says Russia is carrying out 'malign activities' like sabotage on its member states and will address them
"This includes sabotage, acts of violence, cyber and electronic interference, disinformation campai…
Matthew Loh
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The Kremlin's propaganda machine will likely use the conflict in Israel to undermine the West's support for Ukraine: ISW
"These Kremlin narratives target Western audiences to drive a wedge in military support for Ukraine…
Kai Xiang Teo
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Elon Musk's erosion of safety standards at X is helping Putin spread Russian propaganda, study finds
Research for the European Union found that X's elimination of labelling and de-amplifying policies …
Polly Thompson
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A developer built a 'propaganda machine' using OpenAI tech to highlight the dangers of mass-produced AI disinformation
In two months "Nea Paw" had a fully autonomous AI-powered system that generated "convincing content…
Polly Thompson
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Elon Musk admits thwarting a major Ukrainian attack on Russia by refusing to activate his Starlink satellites
The SpaceX billionaire said he was trying to avoid complicity in a "major act of war and conflict e…
Tom Porter
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Russia's propaganda machine is so powerful that many Russians don't even realize they're in a disinformation bubble
VPNs and rogue internet providers are no match for Russia's powerful propaganda machine when it com…
Erin Snodgrass,Sarah Al-Arshani
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A debunked conspiracy theory about US bio-weapons laboratories in Ukraine was seized on by Russian and Chinese media outlets
An article on the Infowars website claimed the US operates biological weapons laboratories "in many…
Cheryl Teh
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Twitter suspended hundreds of fake Chinese propaganda accounts that promoted the Beijing Olympics while glossing over human rights controversies
Twitter suspended hundreds of inauthentic accounts an NYT and ProPublica investigation found to be …
Hannah Towey
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Russian media awash with seemingly faked videos, matching warnings of 'false flag' campaign to justify invading Ukraine
"Not only did the separatists prerecord the evacuation videos, but they also didn't want to blow up…
Joshua Zitser,Kieran Corcoran
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Ukrainian diplomat blasts Elon Musk with profanity over the billionaire's peace plan parroting Putin propaganda
Elon Musk has found himself under fire after sending a series of tweets about the war in Ukraine th…
Samantha Delouya,Jake Epstein,John Haltiwanger
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Meet North Korea's YouTubers, who go fishing, eat ice cream, and gush about 'Harry Potter' to fuel Kim Jong Un's propaganda machine
Clues from known North Korean social-media propaganda accounts indicate that these YouTubers are al…
Matthew Loh
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China's 'king of trolls,' a newspaper editor known for being a nationalist firebrand voice for the Chinese Communist Party, is retiring
Hu Xijin said he was retiring as chief editor of the state-linked Global Times, but would keep cont…
Cheryl Teh
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Meta and Twitter discovered a network of pro-West propaganda accounts that criticized Russia, China, and Iran, researchers say
The accounts, since removed, promoted Western narratives in the Middle East and Central Asia, and c…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Putin's speeches invoke Russia's fight against fascism in WWII to justify the war in Ukraine — and use propaganda strategies from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, historian says
Historian Stephen Norris told Insider Putin's speeches have gotten more apocalyptic, framing the Uk…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Taking on Russia and China means US Special Operations Command is rethinking how it fights the propaganda war
Pentagon and intelligence officials say the US's information-operation capabilities have atrophied …
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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Amazon is selling products emblazoned with a far-right, white nationalist meme
Amazon is selling three products promoting a far-right meme. Media Matters reported three more item…
Kieran Press-Reynolds
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Russia is playing whack-a-mole as it repeatedly blocks niche parts of the internet spreading information about Ukraine, including a pet grooming site, a scary story blog, and a sudoku site
Data collected by digital rights and privacy group Top10VPN and shared with Insider showed Russia i…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Fox News and far-right conspiracists push Russia's propaganda about U.S. biolabs in Ukraine into the mainstream
Russian media outlets have spread nearly identical false claims before about the United States crea…