Fan Yang
@fanyang.bsky.social
Research fellow at melbourne law school node of ARC centre of excellence for automated decision-making society (adm+s)
Study tech, information, migration, and labour
web: fanyang.fan
based in Naarm
Study tech, information, migration, and labour
web: fanyang.fan
based in Naarm
RECapture team on 'We're fighting disinformation in all the wrong ways.'
Regulating disinformation merely as ‘content’ to be prevented or corrected is unproductive and limiting. The real task is to interrogate the system that feeds it.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/27/f...
Regulating disinformation merely as ‘content’ to be prevented or corrected is unproductive and limiting. The real task is to interrogate the system that feeds it.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/27/f...
We're fighting disinformation in all the wrong ways
Regulating disinformation merely as ‘content’ to be prevented or corrected is unproductive and limiting. The real task is to interrogate the system that feeds it.
www.crikey.com.au
October 29, 2025 at 11:31 PM
RECapture team on 'We're fighting disinformation in all the wrong ways.'
Regulating disinformation merely as ‘content’ to be prevented or corrected is unproductive and limiting. The real task is to interrogate the system that feeds it.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/27/f...
Regulating disinformation merely as ‘content’ to be prevented or corrected is unproductive and limiting. The real task is to interrogate the system that feeds it.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/27/f...
RECapture team submitted to the Inquiry into the 2025 federal election. We provided our high-level and operational recommendations for improving trust and security in digital campaigns for Australian elections. @coolrobbie.bsky.social et al.
Link to our submission doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Link to our submission doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Australian political advertising and disinformation on Chinese-language media services: Four recommendations for improving trust and security in digital campaigns for Australian elections
Our report details recommendations provided to the Inquiry into the 2025 federal election for the Australian Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters. The report is based on our res...
doi.org
October 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
RECapture team submitted to the Inquiry into the 2025 federal election. We provided our high-level and operational recommendations for improving trust and security in digital campaigns for Australian elections. @coolrobbie.bsky.social et al.
Link to our submission doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Link to our submission doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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A study of falsehoods spread during the Voice referendum and 2025 federal election on Chinese and American platforms reveals why Australia must change its approach to tackling disinformation.
We're fighting disinformation in all the wrong ways
www.crikey.com.au
October 27, 2025 at 3:43 AM
A study of falsehoods spread during the Voice referendum and 2025 federal election on Chinese and American platforms reveals why Australia must change its approach to tackling disinformation.
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"By appearing as opinion, disinformation passes itself off as a personal viewpoint rather than AS A COVER FOR DECEPTIVE INFLUENCE” (my emphasis) — great article in @crikey.com.au by @fanyang.bsky.social Robbie Fordyce & Luke Heemsbergen #auspol
A study of falsehoods spread during the Voice referendum and 2025 federal election on Chinese and American platforms reveals why Australia must change its approach to tackling disinformation.
We're fighting disinformation in all the wrong ways
www.crikey.com.au
October 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM
"By appearing as opinion, disinformation passes itself off as a personal viewpoint rather than AS A COVER FOR DECEPTIVE INFLUENCE” (my emphasis) — great article in @crikey.com.au by @fanyang.bsky.social Robbie Fordyce & Luke Heemsbergen #auspol
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Now live: “Contextualising disinformation during the 2023 Voice referendum on WeChat: Manipulating knowledge gaps and whitewashing Indigenous rights” Fan Yang, Luke Heemsbergen, Robbie Fordyce misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/cont...
October 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Now live: “Contextualising disinformation during the 2023 Voice referendum on WeChat: Manipulating knowledge gaps and whitewashing Indigenous rights” Fan Yang, Luke Heemsbergen, Robbie Fordyce misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/cont...
Our paper on the Voice referendum on WeChat shows policymakers & factchecker might be fighting the wrong battle against disinfo. Our case & numbers show how disinfo works on the ground. Check out the paper (w. Luke Heemsbergen & @coolrobbie.bsky.social)
url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/fLyrCxnMJ5...
url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/fLyrCxnMJ5...
Contextualizing critical disinformation during the 2023 Voice referendum on WeChat: Manipulating knowledge gaps and whitewashing Indigenous rights | HKS Misinformation Review
Outside China, WeChat is a conduit for translating and circulating English-language information among the Chinese diaspora. Australian domestic political campaigns exploit the gaps between platform go...
url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Our paper on the Voice referendum on WeChat shows policymakers & factchecker might be fighting the wrong battle against disinfo. Our case & numbers show how disinfo works on the ground. Check out the paper (w. Luke Heemsbergen & @coolrobbie.bsky.social)
url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/fLyrCxnMJ5...
url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/fLyrCxnMJ5...
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BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! @mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and myself have combined our collective brains and written a wide-reaching introduction to the complex and interdisciplinary field of Game Studies in this forthcoming book for Polity. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
September 4, 2025 at 4:59 AM
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! @mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and myself have combined our collective brains and written a wide-reaching introduction to the complex and interdisciplinary field of Game Studies in this forthcoming book for Polity. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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We’ve “watched the web mutate from democratic commons into a gamified engine of manipulation and misinformation. The dream of a cooperative knowledge society has faded into an architecture of monetized attention and algorithmic control.”
lareviewofbooks.org/article/mind...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/mind...
Mindless Machines, Mindless Myths | Los Angeles Review of Books
Erik J. Larson thinks about “Mindless: The Human Condition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” which traces Robert Skidelsky’s philosophical reckoning with AI, automation, and the illusion of prog...
lareviewofbooks.org
August 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
We’ve “watched the web mutate from democratic commons into a gamified engine of manipulation and misinformation. The dream of a cooperative knowledge society has faded into an architecture of monetized attention and algorithmic control.”
lareviewofbooks.org/article/mind...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/mind...
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Next @wearehades.bsky.social seminar looks amaze, featuring MDAP's resident historian, data-nerd, map maker, & cat lover @emily-fitzgerald.bsky.social
Monday 8 September, 2pm, online, all welcome!
Register rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/same-d...
Monday 8 September, 2pm, online, all welcome!
Register rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/same-d...
While maps may appear as an objective narrative, the mapmaker is telling a story – using data, design & presentation. In this seminar we'll explore different maps made using the same data and question the stories maps tell – and what we can learn from them!
rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/same-d...
rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/same-d...
Same data, different stories: How different maps can change the data narrative
A geographic map can be powerful data visualisation, used to explore concepts of place, location, and distance that are inherent in much humanities...
rduevents.unimelb.edu.au
August 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Next @wearehades.bsky.social seminar looks amaze, featuring MDAP's resident historian, data-nerd, map maker, & cat lover @emily-fitzgerald.bsky.social
Monday 8 September, 2pm, online, all welcome!
Register rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/same-d...
Monday 8 September, 2pm, online, all welcome!
Register rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/same-d...
That’s zimomo!
From Darkness to Hypervisibility! A one day symposium on the promotional and creator cultures of social media at UQ in November. CFP and details here: hass.uq.edu.au/event/sessio... @bradyjay.bsky.social @antmandan.bsky.social
Darkness to hyper-visibility: exploring promotional and creator cultures of social media
This one-day symposium explores the visibility games at the heart of social media’s promotional and creator cultures. From influencers and everyday users to advertisers and automated algorithms, every...
hass.uq.edu.au
August 25, 2025 at 8:57 AM
That’s zimomo!
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Only a couple weeks to go until my mate @katemannell.bsky.social and I have a yarn with our fellow panelists about the infrastructures of noise @aussts.bsky.social 2025 conference.
Thanks to @blueskychris.bsky.social, there’ll be a streaming link on the day:
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/aussts-202...
Thanks to @blueskychris.bsky.social, there’ll be a streaming link on the day:
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/aussts-202...
AusSTS 2025 Day 1 Keynote "Infrastructures of Noise"
Join AusSTS online for the first keynote of 'Signals and noises' with Dang Nguyen, Fabian Offert, Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal & Kate Mannell.
www.eventbrite.com.au
June 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Only a couple weeks to go until my mate @katemannell.bsky.social and I have a yarn with our fellow panelists about the infrastructures of noise @aussts.bsky.social 2025 conference.
Thanks to @blueskychris.bsky.social, there’ll be a streaming link on the day:
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/aussts-202...
Thanks to @blueskychris.bsky.social, there’ll be a streaming link on the day:
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/aussts-202...
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Great seminar from Andy! If you missed it, you can watch it here:
The SSN and Andy Lakoff going live in 5 - jump on and join us! www.youtube.com/live/400Pt5R... @tdneale.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Great seminar from Andy! If you missed it, you can watch it here:
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Argentine cooperatives launched AI4coops, showcasing the way they are engaging with AI in their projects. ai4coops.ar/en
May 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Argentine cooperatives launched AI4coops, showcasing the way they are engaging with AI in their projects. ai4coops.ar/en
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"Our research reveals while Australian news media often focus on foreign interference, in this election cycle, disinformation is being driven by commercial and domestic political interests," write @fanyang.bsky.social, Luke Heemsbergen, and @coolrobbie.bsky.social.
Read more:
Read more:
How election misinformation spreads on Chinese social media
Hundreds of thousands of people in Australia use these platforms.
ia.acs.org.au
April 17, 2025 at 3:41 AM
"Our research reveals while Australian news media often focus on foreign interference, in this election cycle, disinformation is being driven by commercial and domestic political interests," write @fanyang.bsky.social, Luke Heemsbergen, and @coolrobbie.bsky.social.
Read more:
Read more:
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I wrote a very long blog post about AI writing. I hope you'll read it.
meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-mental...
meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-mental...
The mental tyranny of AI writing
An arduously long blog post
meresophistry.substack.com
March 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I wrote a very long blog post about AI writing. I hope you'll read it.
meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-mental...
meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-mental...
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In this investigative report, ADM+S researchers Fan Yang, Robbie Fordyce, with Luke Heemsbergen worked with ABC, to uncover political disinformation on Chinese social media platform RedNote @fanyang.bsky.social @coolrobbie.bsky.social sky.social bit.ly/41KYczP
A deepfake Dutton speaks Mandarin on Chinese social media platform
A series of attacks on Australian political parties on emerging Chinese social media platform RedNote raise concerns about misinformation, disinformation and the risk of foreign interference ahead of ...
bit.ly
March 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
In this investigative report, ADM+S researchers Fan Yang, Robbie Fordyce, with Luke Heemsbergen worked with ABC, to uncover political disinformation on Chinese social media platform RedNote @fanyang.bsky.social @coolrobbie.bsky.social sky.social bit.ly/41KYczP
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Chinese social media new election battleground. Hear more from ADM+S researchers Fan Yang and Robbie Fordyce on ABC's The World Today @fanyang.bsky.social @coolrobbie.bsky.social #misinformation bit.ly/4iFwawv
Chinese social media new election battleground - ABC listen
Nearly 700,000 Australians use the Chinese platform Rednote, and it's become a new battleground for targeting Chinese-Australian voters.
bit.ly
March 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Chinese social media new election battleground. Hear more from ADM+S researchers Fan Yang and Robbie Fordyce on ABC's The World Today @fanyang.bsky.social @coolrobbie.bsky.social #misinformation bit.ly/4iFwawv
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News media’s legitimization of disinformation: propaganda and the length of the Uluru Statement
Victoria Fielding, Robert Boucaut, Catherine Son & Alexander H. Beare - [Open Access] www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Victoria Fielding, Robert Boucaut, Catherine Son & Alexander H. Beare - [Open Access] www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
News media’s legitimization of disinformation: propaganda and the length of the Uluru Statement
News media notionally plays an important role in democracy by disseminating quality information which the public needs to make democratic decisions in their best interests. Yet, news media can also...
www.tandfonline.com
March 8, 2025 at 7:23 AM
News media’s legitimization of disinformation: propaganda and the length of the Uluru Statement
Victoria Fielding, Robert Boucaut, Catherine Son & Alexander H. Beare - [Open Access] www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Victoria Fielding, Robert Boucaut, Catherine Son & Alexander H. Beare - [Open Access] www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️
March 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️
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Oh hey! The special issue that I co-edited is out now. "Sociology of emotion and affect in the age of mis-, dis-, and mal-information". A collection of three fascinating papers at the horizon of what we know about this topic.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...
Frontiers | Editorial: Sociology of emotion and affect in the age of mis-, dis-, and mal-information
In recent public discourse, particularly with elections in powerful countries, the term disinformation has entered our lexicon. Although the intentional spre...
www.frontiersin.org
March 7, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Oh hey! The special issue that I co-edited is out now. "Sociology of emotion and affect in the age of mis-, dis-, and mal-information". A collection of three fascinating papers at the horizon of what we know about this topic.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...
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Researcher Spotlight 💡
ADM+S Research Fellow Dr @fanyang.bsky.social (UoM) is interested in studying technologies, #digital labour, and information distribution among #migrant communities in Australia.
🔗 View GenAI Concepts: apo.org.au/node/327400
📍 Learn more: www.admscentre.org.au/fan-yang/
ADM+S Research Fellow Dr @fanyang.bsky.social (UoM) is interested in studying technologies, #digital labour, and information distribution among #migrant communities in Australia.
🔗 View GenAI Concepts: apo.org.au/node/327400
📍 Learn more: www.admscentre.org.au/fan-yang/
Platforms, misinformation, and migrant communities
YouTube video by ADM+S Centre
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March 3, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Researcher Spotlight 💡
ADM+S Research Fellow Dr @fanyang.bsky.social (UoM) is interested in studying technologies, #digital labour, and information distribution among #migrant communities in Australia.
🔗 View GenAI Concepts: apo.org.au/node/327400
📍 Learn more: www.admscentre.org.au/fan-yang/
ADM+S Research Fellow Dr @fanyang.bsky.social (UoM) is interested in studying technologies, #digital labour, and information distribution among #migrant communities in Australia.
🔗 View GenAI Concepts: apo.org.au/node/327400
📍 Learn more: www.admscentre.org.au/fan-yang/
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In "DeepAesthetics," Anna Munster explores aesthetics, artificial intelligence, & machine learning to understand the contours of computational experience and the possibility to artfully use AI to create new futures. Read the intro for free on our website now! #CriticalTheory
https://buff.ly/4hIcJmz
https://buff.ly/4hIcJmz
February 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
In "DeepAesthetics," Anna Munster explores aesthetics, artificial intelligence, & machine learning to understand the contours of computational experience and the possibility to artfully use AI to create new futures. Read the intro for free on our website now! #CriticalTheory
https://buff.ly/4hIcJmz
https://buff.ly/4hIcJmz
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AI Countergovernance: Lessons Learned from Canada and Paris
"We learned three lessons from Canada’s failure to pass national AI legislation. These lessons can be applied to oppose unaccountable state-led AI governance around the world."
"We learned three lessons from Canada’s failure to pass national AI legislation. These lessons can be applied to oppose unaccountable state-led AI governance around the world."
AI Countergovernance: Lessons Learned from Canada and Paris | TechPolicy.Press
The Paris AI Action Summit showed that “participatory AI” and “public interest AI” are often co-opted by government and industry to advance their agendas.
www.techpolicy.press
February 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
AI Countergovernance: Lessons Learned from Canada and Paris
"We learned three lessons from Canada’s failure to pass national AI legislation. These lessons can be applied to oppose unaccountable state-led AI governance around the world."
"We learned three lessons from Canada’s failure to pass national AI legislation. These lessons can be applied to oppose unaccountable state-led AI governance around the world."
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One way to understand what is at stake in an AI-driven society is to look at the increasing Data Divide that is marginalising the voices of civil society, not-for-profits and all organisations and collectives working toward social innovation. New paper!! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Deepening the data divide: Marginalised perspectives and non-profit priorities in Australian data sharing reforms - Xiaofang Yao, Anthony McCosker, Yong-Bin Kang, 2025
This paper investigates open public data and data sharing reforms in Australia (2018–2022) and their potential role in deepening the ‘data divide’. In the conte...
journals.sagepub.com
February 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
One way to understand what is at stake in an AI-driven society is to look at the increasing Data Divide that is marginalising the voices of civil society, not-for-profits and all organisations and collectives working toward social innovation. New paper!! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Disinformation among non-English speaking communities circulated within enclosed social media channels / platforms has long been an issue outside the purview of public agencies or US tech companies.
Our study found that combatting disinformation efforts are …
theconversation.com/elections-me...
Our study found that combatting disinformation efforts are …
theconversation.com/elections-me...
Elections mean more misinformation. Here’s what we know about how it spreads in migrant communities
Migrants, especially those who speak English as a second language, are disproportionately targeted by mis- and disinformation. Research shows what might help.
theconversation.com
February 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Disinformation among non-English speaking communities circulated within enclosed social media channels / platforms has long been an issue outside the purview of public agencies or US tech companies.
Our study found that combatting disinformation efforts are …
theconversation.com/elections-me...
Our study found that combatting disinformation efforts are …
theconversation.com/elections-me...