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French military and cybersecurity experts say they have identified a Moscow-based network spreading propaganda and disinformation in western Europe.
France’s Viginum agency, which was set up in 2021 to detect digital interference from forei…
On February 12, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Stéphane Séjourné publicly revealed the discovery of a pro-Russian propaganda network called "Portal Kombat," which was detected in the course of an investigation by the VIGINUM agency…
Pravda, a disinformation network and the former official newspaper of Russia's Soviet-era Communist Party, is expanding its hold in the EU.
The Russian disinformation network Pravda is expanding its hold in the European Union despite attemp…
Operation Overload uncovers a concerted effort to target fact-checkers, newsrooms, and researchers worldwide, depleting their resources and exploiting credible information ecosystems to propagate the Kremlin’s political agenda. The campaign…
An investigation by the DFRLab and Finland-based company CheckFirst has found that the Russian website ecosystem known as “Pravda” expanded its infrastructure over the course of 2024. The operation, previously dubbed “Portal Kombat,” has ev…
It may be tempting to consider Russian influence campaigns in the United States and other democratic countries as merely an afterthought, given the chaos and uncertainty that Donald Trump's second presidency is causing. But his reelection--…
A Moscow-based disinformation network named “Pravda” — the Russian word for "truth" — is pursuing an ambitious strategy by deliberately infiltrating the retrieved data of artificial intelligence chatbots, publishing false claims and propaga…
A Russian disinformation effort that flooded the web with false claims and propaganda continues to impact the output of major AI chatbots, according to a new report from NewsGuard, shared first with Axios.
Why it matters: The study, which e…
(TNND) --- Popular artificial intelligence chatbots are being flooded with Russian propaganda, and much of that disinformation gets repeated to unsuspecting Americans seeking answers from the AI systems, according to a new report from NewsG…
ChatGPT-4-o, Gemini, Claude, and other major Western chatbots are spreading Russian propaganda about the war in Ukraine and other topics of interest to Russia, a study by news and information websites rating provider NewsGuard has found.
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A Moscow-based disinformation network named Pravda is continuing to spread false information across the web, according to a report from NewsGuard.
The disinformation, which masquerades as news websites and uses artificial intelligence to pr…
A Russian disinformation network is actively manipulating AI chatbots to spread fake news and propaganda online, according to a new report from NewsGuard. The research shows that pro-Kremlin narratives are distorting the work of artificial …
A Russian disinformation network called Pravda (“Truth”) has influenced leading AI chatbots’ output by publishing numerous articles that made their way into the bots’ training data, a new report from the analysis group NewsGuard reveals. Ac…
A Moscow-based propaganda network named "Pravda" has systematically infiltrated artificial intelligence (AI) systems worldwide, embedding Russian disinformation into leading generative AI tools, an audit by NewsGuard has revealed.
The audit…
American disinformation research company NewsGuard has found evidence that the Moscow-based Pravda network, which is run by a web developer from Crimea, is publishing false statements to influence the responses of AI models.
According to Ne…
The American disinformation research company NewsGuard has found evidence that the Moscow-based Pravda network, which is run by a Crimean web developer, is publishing false claims to influence the responses of AI models.
According to NewsGu…
A Moscow-based disinformation operation is systematically feeding Russian propaganda into Western AI systems through a vast network of fake news sites called "Pravda" (Russian for "truth").
Recent findings from NewsGuard show that leading A…
Russian disinformation networks are infiltrating popular AI chatbots, spreading propaganda that could mislead millions, a NewsGuard investigation reported by Axios on March 6 revealed.
The alarming discovery comes as the United States repor…
A Russia-based disinformation network has successfully "infected" many of the world’s most popular AI chatbots with pro-Kremlin misinformation, according to a new report by NewsGuard.
Rather than targeting readers with propaganda directly, …
The Pravda network, a well-resourced Moscow-based operation to spread pro-Russian narratives globally, is said to be distorting the output of chatbots by flooding large language models (LLM) with pro-Kremlin falsehoods.
A study of 10 leadin…
A troubling trend in which most western AI chatbots are unknowingly spreading Russian propaganda has been uncovered by a NewsGuard audit published last week. A Moscow-based disinformation network known as "Pravda" --- the Russian word for "…
Disinformation from Russian news sources has compromised the results of several leading artificial intelligence chatbots, according to a new report.
Research from NewsGuard has revealed that pro-Russian narratives originating from a vast ne…
An audit has revealed that 10 of the leading generative AI tools repeat fake narratives from the Russian Pravda network in 33% of cases.
This finding comes from a special report by NewsGuard, with a concise summary provided by Militarnyi.
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Scientists, policy experts, and artists have been concerned about the unintended consequences of artificial intelligence since before the technology was readily available. With most technological innovations, it's common to ask whether that…
Russia is automating the spread of false information to fool artificial intelligence chatbots on key topics, offering a playbook to other bad actors on how to game AI to push content meant to inflame, influence and obfuscate instead of info…
Fil Menczer caught his first whiff of what he calls "social bots" in the early 2010s. He was mapping how information travels on Twitter when he stumbled onto a few clusters of accounts that looked a little suspicious. Some of them shared th…
