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The scale, speed and coordination of AI-assisted disinformation are outpacing the mechanisms designed to counter them. Pei-Chi Jao writes that Taiwan's year-end elections make that gap more urgent to close.
China’s Disinformation Operations in Taiwan Are Changing with AI
AI-driven Chinese influence operations are targeting Taiwan with coordinated content, deepfakes, and social media campaigns, writes Pei-Chi Jao.
www.techpolicy.press
September 12, 2026 at 8:50 AM
The scale, speed and coordination of AI-assisted disinformation are outpacing the mechanisms designed to counter them. Pei-Chi Jao writes that Taiwan's year-end elections make that gap more urgent to close.
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JUST RELEASED: Innovating for the Public Good & Dewey Square Group released a report for candidates, campaign staff, advocacy groups & others who run political and issue-based campaigns, giving them tools to inoculate themselves against disinformation.
www.psgconsulting.com/research-pub...
www.psgconsulting.com/research-pub...
Countering Disinformation 2026 Strategies — PSG Consulting
www.psgconsulting.com
September 10, 2026 at 9:08 PM
JUST RELEASED: Innovating for the Public Good & Dewey Square Group released a report for candidates, campaign staff, advocacy groups & others who run political and issue-based campaigns, giving them tools to inoculate themselves against disinformation.
www.psgconsulting.com/research-pub...
www.psgconsulting.com/research-pub...
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Very proud of the work my team did with @ifpg.bsky.social here... There is still time - even with just weeks to go, for organizations to put inoculation to work fighting against the disinformation we know is coming as we head to the polls this midterm. And time to start planning for beyond.
JUST RELEASED: Innovating for the Public Good & Dewey Square Group released a report for candidates, campaign staff, advocacy groups & others who run political and issue-based campaigns, giving them tools to inoculate themselves against disinformation.
www.psgconsulting.com/research-pub...
www.psgconsulting.com/research-pub...
Countering Disinformation 2026 Strategies — PSG Consulting
www.psgconsulting.com
September 10, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Very proud of the work my team did with @ifpg.bsky.social here... There is still time - even with just weeks to go, for organizations to put inoculation to work fighting against the disinformation we know is coming as we head to the polls this midterm. And time to start planning for beyond.
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⚠️ #sw_isac_advisory
There is a spate of #accounttakeover underway.
Service providers may receive reports for accounts that have a display name beginning with "Hacked -" or linking to "t[.]me/HomeFucker5"
These accounts may be longstanding valid […]
[Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]
There is a spate of #accounttakeover underway.
Service providers may receive reports for accounts that have a display name beginning with "Hacked -" or linking to "t[.]me/HomeFucker5"
These accounts may be longstanding valid […]
[Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]
September 7, 2026 at 2:51 AM
⚠️ #sw_isac_advisory
There is a spate of #accounttakeover underway.
Service providers may receive reports for accounts that have a display name beginning with "Hacked -" or linking to "t[.]me/HomeFucker5"
These accounts may be longstanding valid […]
[Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]
There is a spate of #accounttakeover underway.
Service providers may receive reports for accounts that have a display name beginning with "Hacked -" or linking to "t[.]me/HomeFucker5"
These accounts may be longstanding valid […]
[Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]
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This was such a special podcast to be a part of with @yoyoel.com and @benwhitelaw.bsky.social. I hope that our stories can be valuable for other T&S professionals thinking about how to share their hard-won knowledge and expertise more widely.
In the latest episode of Safe Space, we bring together @yoyoel.com, @vaishnavi.bsky.social, and @benwhitelaw.bsky.social for a roundtable on how trust and safety tells its story. Listen to the full episode here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/safe-s...
Safe Space, a Trust & Safety Podcast: TrustCon Roundtable
Greater transparency in trust and safety doesn’t have to begin with a whistleblower, a major media interview, or a public controversy. In this roundtable episode of Safe Space, Yoel Roth, Ben Whitelaw, and Vaishnavi J explore practical ways practitioners can share their knowledge with less risk.
www.linkedin.com
September 1, 2026 at 7:47 PM
This was such a special podcast to be a part of with @yoyoel.com and @benwhitelaw.bsky.social. I hope that our stories can be valuable for other T&S professionals thinking about how to share their hard-won knowledge and expertise more widely.
For what I imagine are predictable and sensible reasons, I cannot recreate the Trust & Safety feed in Attie...
July 31, 2026 at 11:54 AM
For what I imagine are predictable and sensible reasons, I cannot recreate the Trust & Safety feed in Attie...
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who participated in this year’s Social Web Operations Survey! 💙
Whether you're running a personal node or managing a massive community, your feedback gives us the info we need to build better tools, guidance, and support for frontline operators.
Whether you're running a personal node or managing a massive community, your feedback gives us the info we need to build better tools, guidance, and support for frontline operators.
July 31, 2026 at 11:44 AM
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who participated in this year’s Social Web Operations Survey! 💙
Whether you're running a personal node or managing a massive community, your feedback gives us the info we need to build better tools, guidance, and support for frontline operators.
Whether you're running a personal node or managing a massive community, your feedback gives us the info we need to build better tools, guidance, and support for frontline operators.
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🔥 The Blacksky mobile app is here.
Today we're opening up our public beta on both iOS and Android.
If you've been waiting for a native mobile experience, now's your chance to try it before our full public launch and help us make it even better. 🧵👇
Today we're opening up our public beta on both iOS and Android.
If you've been waiting for a native mobile experience, now's your chance to try it before our full public launch and help us make it even better. 🧵👇
July 29, 2026 at 3:51 PM
🔥 The Blacksky mobile app is here.
Today we're opening up our public beta on both iOS and Android.
If you've been waiting for a native mobile experience, now's your chance to try it before our full public launch and help us make it even better. 🧵👇
Today we're opening up our public beta on both iOS and Android.
If you've been waiting for a native mobile experience, now's your chance to try it before our full public launch and help us make it even better. 🧵👇
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"The Next Information War Is Already Here" - check out this article I co-wrote with @willrobinson1776.bsky.social ... we work to frame very big changes coming to the political digital landscape faster than most think.
Up for any thoughts, notes, and appreciate all...
substack.com/@willrobinso...
Up for any thoughts, notes, and appreciate all...
substack.com/@willrobinso...
The Next Information War Is Already Here
AI systems are consuming false, misleading, and manipulated content from across the internet - and increasingly presenting it as authoritative answers to millions of users.
substack.com
July 24, 2026 at 2:10 PM
"The Next Information War Is Already Here" - check out this article I co-wrote with @willrobinson1776.bsky.social ... we work to frame very big changes coming to the political digital landscape faster than most think.
Up for any thoughts, notes, and appreciate all...
substack.com/@willrobinso...
Up for any thoughts, notes, and appreciate all...
substack.com/@willrobinso...
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Given the timestamp, Faine may have posted this literally at the same time I - who need $ to keep studying AI-CSAM - was saying this exact thing to someone at TrustCon, who’d been telling me about a grantmaker they’d met from an effective altruism org who was very excited about insect sentience.
it's funny how it's considered just a little bit coarse and unrespectable to be focused on current and extant threats instead of trying to get grant money to sit around and think about how computer demons will eat us if we're not nicer to brine shrimp
July 22, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Given the timestamp, Faine may have posted this literally at the same time I - who need $ to keep studying AI-CSAM - was saying this exact thing to someone at TrustCon, who’d been telling me about a grantmaker they’d met from an effective altruism org who was very excited about insect sentience.
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Day 1 #trustcon #trustcon2026 - I'm here to advocate for the Social Web, find out what resources and research are available to help service providers, moderators, community builders... and meet with the people already supporting decentral social.
July 20, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Day 1 #trustcon #trustcon2026 - I'm here to advocate for the Social Web, find out what resources and research are available to help service providers, moderators, community builders... and meet with the people already supporting decentral social.
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TrustCon day 1. Our ROOST team is in SF!
T&S tooling research meets reality (1:30) and our panel on what open source means for your safety stack (4:10).
Find us! @annebdh.bsky.social @cassidyjames.com
@julietshen.bsky.social www.tspa.org/event/trustc...
T&S tooling research meets reality (1:30) and our panel on what open source means for your safety stack (4:10).
Find us! @annebdh.bsky.social @cassidyjames.com
@julietshen.bsky.social www.tspa.org/event/trustc...
TrustCon 2026 - Trust & Safety Professional Association
TrustCon is the only global conference of its kind dedicated to trust and safety professionals who are responsible for the challenging work of keeping our platforms and communities safe. Attendees hav...
www.tspa.org
July 20, 2026 at 5:44 PM
TrustCon day 1. Our ROOST team is in SF!
T&S tooling research meets reality (1:30) and our panel on what open source means for your safety stack (4:10).
Find us! @annebdh.bsky.social @cassidyjames.com
@julietshen.bsky.social www.tspa.org/event/trustc...
T&S tooling research meets reality (1:30) and our panel on what open source means for your safety stack (4:10).
Find us! @annebdh.bsky.social @cassidyjames.com
@julietshen.bsky.social www.tspa.org/event/trustc...
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IFTAS has now observed and reported over 4,000 inauthentic accounts created by the Portal Kombat/Matryoshka disinfo #fimi team. This number is just the accounts manually observed and verified by humans.
Could be there's twice as many, ten times as many […]
[Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]
Could be there's twice as many, ten times as many […]
[Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]
July 11, 2026 at 6:15 PM
IFTAS has now observed and reported over 4,000 inauthentic accounts created by the Portal Kombat/Matryoshka disinfo #fimi team. This number is just the accounts manually observed and verified by humans.
Could be there's twice as many, ten times as many […]
[Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]
Could be there's twice as many, ten times as many […]
[Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]
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In this week’s Ctrl-Alt-Speech, @masnick.com and I discuss why Meta has little incentive to improve its ads T&S plus, for Patreon supporters, the closing in of who gets to use the big AI models. Have a listen! www.patreon.com/CtrlAltSpeec...
Sell Me Lies, Sell Me Sweet Meta Lies | Ctrl-Alt-Speech
Sell Me Lies, Sell Me Sweet Meta Lies by Ctrl-Alt-Speech on Patreon. Join Ctrl-Alt-Speech's community for exclusive content and updates.
www.patreon.com
July 10, 2026 at 10:45 AM
In this week’s Ctrl-Alt-Speech, @masnick.com and I discuss why Meta has little incentive to improve its ads T&S plus, for Patreon supporters, the closing in of who gets to use the big AI models. Have a listen! www.patreon.com/CtrlAltSpeec...
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- Automated spam is on the rise.
- Our digital communities are at risk from increasing regulation.
- AI bots are overwhelming service providers.
But we can prevail!
Our annual assessment asks what tools and resources you need most to fight back. Whether you're a community builder, platform […]
- Our digital communities are at risk from increasing regulation.
- AI bots are overwhelming service providers.
But we can prevail!
Our annual assessment asks what tools and resources you need most to fight back. Whether you're a community builder, platform […]
Original post on mastodon.iftas.org
mastodon.iftas.org
July 10, 2026 at 11:28 AM
- Automated spam is on the rise.
- Our digital communities are at risk from increasing regulation.
- AI bots are overwhelming service providers.
But we can prevail!
Our annual assessment asks what tools and resources you need most to fight back. Whether you're a community builder, platform […]
- Our digital communities are at risk from increasing regulation.
- AI bots are overwhelming service providers.
But we can prevail!
Our annual assessment asks what tools and resources you need most to fight back. Whether you're a community builder, platform […]
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It’s here! Today, we’re announcing the launch of Blacksky-Only Posts! Now, anyone with a blacksky.app handle or anyone on the Blacksky feed can make a private post on blacksky.community.
This marks a significant step forward in advancing permissioned data on the open social web.
This marks a significant step forward in advancing permissioned data on the open social web.
July 8, 2026 at 4:23 PM
It’s here! Today, we’re announcing the launch of Blacksky-Only Posts! Now, anyone with a blacksky.app handle or anyone on the Blacksky feed can make a private post on blacksky.community.
This marks a significant step forward in advancing permissioned data on the open social web.
This marks a significant step forward in advancing permissioned data on the open social web.
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𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧 🌉
𝗥𝗼𝘀𝗸𝗮 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗲: how a pro-Russian IMS exploits vulnerabilities of decentralised platforms to spread propaganda
🔗 checkfirst.network/roska-bridge...
𝗥𝗼𝘀𝗸𝗮 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗲: how a pro-Russian IMS exploits vulnerabilities of decentralised platforms to spread propaganda
🔗 checkfirst.network/roska-bridge...
July 2, 2026 at 9:19 AM
𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧 🌉
𝗥𝗼𝘀𝗸𝗮 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗲: how a pro-Russian IMS exploits vulnerabilities of decentralised platforms to spread propaganda
🔗 checkfirst.network/roska-bridge...
𝗥𝗼𝘀𝗸𝗮 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗲: how a pro-Russian IMS exploits vulnerabilities of decentralised platforms to spread propaganda
🔗 checkfirst.network/roska-bridge...
The threat landscape is changing. Our last assessment showed that automated #spam and coordinated #disinformation have overtaken other issues as the top daily drain for app admins and moderators. Tell us what you're facing today in the annual #SocialWeb Operations survey:
➡️ tally.so/r/81MW6k
➡️ tally.so/r/81MW6k
July 1, 2026 at 12:43 PM
The threat landscape is changing. Our last assessment showed that automated #spam and coordinated #disinformation have overtaken other issues as the top daily drain for app admins and moderators. Tell us what you're facing today in the annual #SocialWeb Operations survey:
➡️ tally.so/r/81MW6k
➡️ tally.so/r/81MW6k
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🧵 This is new in how Matryoshka works.
They are emailing fact checkers impersonating us, @Antibot4Navalny team:
asking to "verify" Matryoshka's daily set of fake videos / front covers *on our behalf*.
They are emailing fact checkers impersonating us, @Antibot4Navalny team:
asking to "verify" Matryoshka's daily set of fake videos / front covers *on our behalf*.
June 29, 2026 at 9:06 AM
🧵 This is new in how Matryoshka works.
They are emailing fact checkers impersonating us, @Antibot4Navalny team:
asking to "verify" Matryoshka's daily set of fake videos / front covers *on our behalf*.
They are emailing fact checkers impersonating us, @Antibot4Navalny team:
asking to "verify" Matryoshka's daily set of fake videos / front covers *on our behalf*.
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Our 2025 needs assessment showed that 45% of online community admins handle three or more distinct roles with little support.
If you're building on the Atmosphere and wearing too many hats, tell us how it affects your day-to-day in our 2026 Social Web Survey:
➡️ tally.so/r/81MW6k
If you're building on the Atmosphere and wearing too many hats, tell us how it affects your day-to-day in our 2026 Social Web Survey:
➡️ tally.so/r/81MW6k
June 22, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Our 2025 needs assessment showed that 45% of online community admins handle three or more distinct roles with little support.
If you're building on the Atmosphere and wearing too many hats, tell us how it affects your day-to-day in our 2026 Social Web Survey:
➡️ tally.so/r/81MW6k
If you're building on the Atmosphere and wearing too many hats, tell us how it affects your day-to-day in our 2026 Social Web Survey:
➡️ tally.so/r/81MW6k
Our 2025 needs assessment showed that 45% of online community admins handle three or more distinct roles with little support.
If you're building on the Atmosphere and wearing too many hats, tell us how it affects your day-to-day in our 2026 Social Web Survey:
➡️ tally.so/r/81MW6k
If you're building on the Atmosphere and wearing too many hats, tell us how it affects your day-to-day in our 2026 Social Web Survey:
➡️ tally.so/r/81MW6k
June 22, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Our 2025 needs assessment showed that 45% of online community admins handle three or more distinct roles with little support.
If you're building on the Atmosphere and wearing too many hats, tell us how it affects your day-to-day in our 2026 Social Web Survey:
➡️ tally.so/r/81MW6k
If you're building on the Atmosphere and wearing too many hats, tell us how it affects your day-to-day in our 2026 Social Web Survey:
➡️ tally.so/r/81MW6k
If you're a platform admin managing compliance or a moderator handling reports, the 2026 Social Web Operations Survey is for you.
It's mobile-ready and takes under 10 mins. Your feedback turns into advocacy, tools, and resources.
Any platform, any protocol.
Take the survey here: tally.so/r/81MW6k
It's mobile-ready and takes under 10 mins. Your feedback turns into advocacy, tools, and resources.
Any platform, any protocol.
Take the survey here: tally.so/r/81MW6k
2026 Social Web Operations Survey
Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.
tally.so
June 19, 2026 at 4:58 PM
If you're a platform admin managing compliance or a moderator handling reports, the 2026 Social Web Operations Survey is for you.
It's mobile-ready and takes under 10 mins. Your feedback turns into advocacy, tools, and resources.
Any platform, any protocol.
Take the survey here: tally.so/r/81MW6k
It's mobile-ready and takes under 10 mins. Your feedback turns into advocacy, tools, and resources.
Any platform, any protocol.
Take the survey here: tally.so/r/81MW6k
The 2026 Social Web Operations Survey is open.
If you're operating a platform, managing a community, or moderating content, this needs assessment is designed for you.
Your feedback helps protect every independent social web community builder.
Take part here:
➡️ tally.so/r/81MW6k
If you're operating a platform, managing a community, or moderating content, this needs assessment is designed for you.
Your feedback helps protect every independent social web community builder.
Take part here:
➡️ tally.so/r/81MW6k
June 17, 2026 at 1:51 PM
The 2026 Social Web Operations Survey is open.
If you're operating a platform, managing a community, or moderating content, this needs assessment is designed for you.
Your feedback helps protect every independent social web community builder.
Take part here:
➡️ tally.so/r/81MW6k
If you're operating a platform, managing a community, or moderating content, this needs assessment is designed for you.
Your feedback helps protect every independent social web community builder.
Take part here:
➡️ tally.so/r/81MW6k
The Annual Social Web Operations Survey (formerly our annual Moderator Needs Assessment) is now open!
If you're a platform/app admin, community manager, or frontline moderator, your experience and needs are what drives our work.
Take ten minutes to complete the survey today:
tally.so/r/81MW6k
If you're a platform/app admin, community manager, or frontline moderator, your experience and needs are what drives our work.
Take ten minutes to complete the survey today:
tally.so/r/81MW6k
June 13, 2026 at 4:02 PM
The Annual Social Web Operations Survey (formerly our annual Moderator Needs Assessment) is now open!
If you're a platform/app admin, community manager, or frontline moderator, your experience and needs are what drives our work.
Take ten minutes to complete the survey today:
tally.so/r/81MW6k
If you're a platform/app admin, community manager, or frontline moderator, your experience and needs are what drives our work.
Take ten minutes to complete the survey today:
tally.so/r/81MW6k
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Testing a post from the Blacksky iOS app.
June 10, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Testing a post from the Blacksky iOS app.