ddaeng
@ddaeng.bsky.social
Pattern-seeker. Exploring scam networks & disinformation research. Student of life. https://ddaengsec.substack.com
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Next week's Stage Talk is with the investigative journalist Luiz Fernando Toledo. Luiz uses open data and FOIA requests to reveal information about deforestation efforts in the Amazon.
He'll be discussing his investigations on Thursday at 5pm CEST/11am EDT here: discord.gg/ehN58Pbh?eve...
He'll be discussing his investigations on Thursday at 5pm CEST/11am EDT here: discord.gg/ehN58Pbh?eve...
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August 23, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Next week's Stage Talk is with the investigative journalist Luiz Fernando Toledo. Luiz uses open data and FOIA requests to reveal information about deforestation efforts in the Amazon.
He'll be discussing his investigations on Thursday at 5pm CEST/11am EDT here: discord.gg/ehN58Pbh?eve...
He'll be discussing his investigations on Thursday at 5pm CEST/11am EDT here: discord.gg/ehN58Pbh?eve...
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Evolution of a T-shirt spammer: In which a repeatedly banned X/Twitter spammer attempts to piggyback on Kamala Harris's candidacy to sell T-shirts with plagiarized designs
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Evolution of a T-shirt spammer
In which a repeatedly banned X/Twitter spammer attempts to piggyback on Kamala Harris's candidacy to sell T-shirts with plagiarized designs
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August 24, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Evolution of a T-shirt spammer: In which a repeatedly banned X/Twitter spammer attempts to piggyback on Kamala Harris's candidacy to sell T-shirts with plagiarized designs
conspirator0.substack.com/p/evolution-...
conspirator0.substack.com/p/evolution-...
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Good piece on AI-generated Instagram models:
fakedup.substack.com/p/the-ai-thi...
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🤥 Faked Up #14
Instagram's army of AI thirst traps represent a new blended unreality, Wikipedia is a battlefield in Brazil, and the Harris campaign co-opts media credibility
fakedup.substack.com
August 22, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Good piece on AI-generated Instagram models:
fakedup.substack.com/p/the-ai-thi...
fakedup.substack.com/p/the-ai-thi...
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Disturbing because people use social consensus to support truth judgments. Many people find communities in which their conspiracy views are supported and confirmed by other people. And these stories can provide further support unless they are really clear that one set of claims are false.
January 4, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Disturbing because people use social consensus to support truth judgments. Many people find communities in which their conspiracy views are supported and confirmed by other people. And these stories can provide further support unless they are really clear that one set of claims are false.
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January 8, 2024 at 6:00 PM
More reason to transition away from Substack soon. It seems if you want to report racially offensive or homophobic content it can lead to unwanted stalking or doxxing. Thanks, Substack, for contributing to a hostile environment where BIPOC & queer folx feel unsafe.
When you report a comment on Substack, it tells the author the name of the person who reported them and the reason why. No way this could possibly be abused.
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Note by Jonathan M. Katz on Substack
FYI: If you report a comment on Substack, the system tells the author who reported them and why. These are screenshots from one of those real Nazis — the author of a self-avowed “National Socialis...
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January 8, 2024 at 8:30 PM
More reason to transition away from Substack soon. It seems if you want to report racially offensive or homophobic content it can lead to unwanted stalking or doxxing. Thanks, Substack, for contributing to a hostile environment where BIPOC & queer folx feel unsafe.
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Of COURSE it does. Of course. They could not have designed a better platform for Nazis if they had tried. (But it kinda looks like that was their goal…)
January 8, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Of COURSE it does. Of course. They could not have designed a better platform for Nazis if they had tried. (But it kinda looks like that was their goal…)
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Hello Fellow Historians! My network just asked me about offering ads for Hillsdale College on my podcast.
For those who don’t know, Hillsdale designs history curriculums for teachers and states that specifically leave out the complete story of early American & U.S. history. 1/
For those who don’t know, Hillsdale designs history curriculums for teachers and states that specifically leave out the complete story of early American & U.S. history. 1/
January 8, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Hello Fellow Historians! My network just asked me about offering ads for Hillsdale College on my podcast.
For those who don’t know, Hillsdale designs history curriculums for teachers and states that specifically leave out the complete story of early American & U.S. history. 1/
For those who don’t know, Hillsdale designs history curriculums for teachers and states that specifically leave out the complete story of early American & U.S. history. 1/
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A cat with a mission on New Years Eve
January 1, 2024 at 2:46 AM
A cat with a mission on New Years Eve
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As we leave 2023 behind ❄️we wanted to share our founder Eliot's popular Bellingcat Stage Talk from earlier this year.
Discover how all this started as he details the journey the Bellingcat team has been on: rss.com/podcasts/bel...
Discover how all this started as he details the journey the Bellingcat team has been on: rss.com/podcasts/bel...
Stage Talks with Bellingcat - "We are Bellingcat" with Eliot Higgins | RSS.com
Our guest this week was Bellingcat Founder and Creative Director Eliot Higgins. Eliot came by our Discord server to talk to us about his book, "We Are Bellingcat", and to answer questions from our com...
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December 31, 2023 at 9:35 PM
As we leave 2023 behind ❄️we wanted to share our founder Eliot's popular Bellingcat Stage Talk from earlier this year.
Discover how all this started as he details the journey the Bellingcat team has been on: rss.com/podcasts/bel...
Discover how all this started as he details the journey the Bellingcat team has been on: rss.com/podcasts/bel...
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In my final blog post of 2023, I dug into a pair of Daily Beast articles about the alleged use of a "bot farm" and other forms of social media manipulation by the DeSantis campaign. Verdict: the evidence and claims presented do not hold up under scrutiny.
conspirator0.substack.com/p/the-bot-fa...
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The "bot farm" that wasn't
In which the Daily Beast attempts to report on social media manipulation, but winds up generating disinformation of its own instead
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December 29, 2023 at 6:13 PM
In my final blog post of 2023, I dug into a pair of Daily Beast articles about the alleged use of a "bot farm" and other forms of social media manipulation by the DeSantis campaign. Verdict: the evidence and claims presented do not hold up under scrutiny.
conspirator0.substack.com/p/the-bot-fa...
conspirator0.substack.com/p/the-bot-fa...
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Here's an article on various Twitter astroturf efforts operated by MAGA social media consultant and Roger Stone protégé Jason Sullivan, best known for the Power10 retweet automation software.
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Astroturfing to the 10th power
The myriad mediocre projects of a MAGA social media consultant
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September 24, 2023 at 4:32 PM
Here's an article on various Twitter astroturf efforts operated by MAGA social media consultant and Roger Stone protégé Jason Sullivan, best known for the Power10 retweet automation software.
conspirator0.substack.com/p/astroturfi...
conspirator0.substack.com/p/astroturfi...
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"I challenged Putin to a physical fight"
September 23, 2023 at 2:56 PM
"I challenged Putin to a physical fight"
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As if the @bellingcat.com Discord Server wasn't the best, funnest, and most informative place on the internet already, one of our community members has set up a Minecraft server for it!
discord.gg/bellingcat
discord.gg/bellingcat
September 23, 2023 at 7:47 PM
As if the @bellingcat.com Discord Server wasn't the best, funnest, and most informative place on the internet already, one of our community members has set up a Minecraft server for it!
discord.gg/bellingcat
discord.gg/bellingcat
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Here's another paper — to be presented by lead student Stephen Prochaska in October at the CSCW conference — which explores how Trump supporters mobilized on top of participatory disinformation leading up to and following the 2020 election: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Mobilizing Manufactured Reality: How Participatory Disinformation Shaped Deep Stories to Catalyze Ac...
Claims of election fraud throughout the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election and during
the lead up to the January 6, 2021 insurrection attempt have drawn attention to the
urgent need to better understand ...
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September 23, 2023 at 7:15 PM
Here's another paper — to be presented by lead student Stephen Prochaska in October at the CSCW conference — which explores how Trump supporters mobilized on top of participatory disinformation leading up to and following the 2020 election: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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If anyone is at all curious as to why researchers like myself and my colleagues are under attack (covered in the WA Post this weekend) perhaps some of our papers might be of interest. Here's a recent one on participatory disinformation and the 2020 election: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Influence and Improvisation: Participatory Disinformation during the 2020 US Election - Kate Starbir...
The 2020 US election was accompanied by an effort to spread a false meta-narrative of widespread voter fraud. This meta-narrative took hold among a substantial ...
journals.sagepub.com
September 23, 2023 at 6:41 PM
If anyone is at all curious as to why researchers like myself and my colleagues are under attack (covered in the WA Post this weekend) perhaps some of our papers might be of interest. Here's a recent one on participatory disinformation and the 2020 election: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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As an open source researcher you often cover data or footage that is highly contested and ethically difficult. Director of Research and Training @gianfiorella.bsky.social has written a guide to navigating ethical dilemmas in our field.
Notes from the Digital Field: Ethical Dilemmas in Open Source Research - bellingcat
Working with open source information brings a whole range of complex ethical issues – here are some tips based on Bellingcat's experience.
www.bellingcat.com
September 19, 2023 at 11:58 AM
As an open source researcher you often cover data or footage that is highly contested and ethically difficult. Director of Research and Training @gianfiorella.bsky.social has written a guide to navigating ethical dilemmas in our field.
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In a guide written by @bellingcat.com Director of Research and Training, @gianfiorella.bsky.social, to navigate ethical dilemmas in open source research, I stressed the importance of keeping the people you are investigating in mind as you research.
Notes from the Digital Field: Ethical Dilemmas in Open Source Research - bellingcat
Working with open source information brings a whole range of complex ethical issues – here are some tips based on Bellingcat's experience.
www.bellingcat.com
September 19, 2023 at 4:59 PM
In a guide written by @bellingcat.com Director of Research and Training, @gianfiorella.bsky.social, to navigate ethical dilemmas in open source research, I stressed the importance of keeping the people you are investigating in mind as you research.
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Update: this demonstrably false article by @lahut.bsky.social is still online at The Daily Beast over five months later. Rather than retract and apologize, Lahut has chosen the coward's path: he is deleting his own posts whenever he receives pushback on his decision to publish a cyberstalker's lies.
September 21, 2023 at 5:03 PM
Update: this demonstrably false article by @lahut.bsky.social is still online at The Daily Beast over five months later. Rather than retract and apologize, Lahut has chosen the coward's path: he is deleting his own posts whenever he receives pushback on his decision to publish a cyberstalker's lies.
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Anatomy of an online outrage mob:
When right-wing influencer Libs Of TikTok tags educators, school districts and medical facilities on Twitter, her fans spam their accounts with harassment
https://conspirator0.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-an-online-outrage-mob
When right-wing influencer Libs Of TikTok tags educators, school districts and medical facilities on Twitter, her fans spam their accounts with harassment
https://conspirator0.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-an-online-outrage-mob
Anatomy of an online outrage mob
When right-wing influencer Libs Of TikTok tags educators, school districts and medical facilities on Twitter, her fans spam their accounts with harassment
conspirator0.substack.com
July 24, 2023 at 6:41 PM
Anatomy of an online outrage mob:
When right-wing influencer Libs Of TikTok tags educators, school districts and medical facilities on Twitter, her fans spam their accounts with harassment
https://conspirator0.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-an-online-outrage-mob
When right-wing influencer Libs Of TikTok tags educators, school districts and medical facilities on Twitter, her fans spam their accounts with harassment
https://conspirator0.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-an-online-outrage-mob
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I emphasized that Israel’s claim of killing “no non-combatants” doesn’t hold up in regards to the raid in early July in Jenin. Also stressed that the dehumanization of Palestinians in Western media needs to stop. If you speak dutch, you can watch it back here: www.npostart.nl/nieuwsuur/16...
Nieuwsuur gemist? Start met kijken op NPO Start
Belarussische oppositie valt uiteen * Corruptie op Poolse consulaten * Internetdetectives
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September 23, 2023 at 4:24 PM
I emphasized that Israel’s claim of killing “no non-combatants” doesn’t hold up in regards to the raid in early July in Jenin. Also stressed that the dehumanization of Palestinians in Western media needs to stop. If you speak dutch, you can watch it back here: www.npostart.nl/nieuwsuur/16...
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Last week, I was on dutch television to talk about the open source investigative work that my research partners and I do. It was special to me because usually our media is reluctant to report on Palestine and usually slips into the narrative of bothsideism.
September 23, 2023 at 4:20 PM
Last week, I was on dutch television to talk about the open source investigative work that my research partners and I do. It was special to me because usually our media is reluctant to report on Palestine and usually slips into the narrative of bothsideism.
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Here’s a story about how family members of the Maui wildlife victims are having to use mobile phone photos and metadata to find out what happened to their loved ones.
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/16/1194082094/cell-phone-photos-and-some-metadata-a-sons-search-for-his-mother-in-maui
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/16/1194082094/cell-phone-photos-and-some-metadata-a-sons-search-for-his-mother-in-maui
August 18, 2023 at 11:40 PM
Here’s a story about how family members of the Maui wildlife victims are having to use mobile phone photos and metadata to find out what happened to their loved ones.
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/16/1194082094/cell-phone-photos-and-some-metadata-a-sons-search-for-his-mother-in-maui
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/16/1194082094/cell-phone-photos-and-some-metadata-a-sons-search-for-his-mother-in-maui
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i'm going to tell my kids this was @faineg.bsky.social
August 19, 2023 at 2:33 AM
i'm going to tell my kids this was @faineg.bsky.social
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I wrote about the recent unfortunate trend of social media platforms shutting down API access for researchers, and why I think it's a bad development: https://conspirator0.substack.com/p/on-social-media-data-access-for-researchers
(TBH, this article could easily be ten times as long.)
(TBH, this article could easily be ten times as long.)
On social media data access for researchers
Data API shutdowns and price hikes by Twitter/X and Reddit are harmful to public interest social media research and damage the ability to make sense of the public conversation
conspirator0.substack.com
August 5, 2023 at 10:20 PM
I wrote about the recent unfortunate trend of social media platforms shutting down API access for researchers, and why I think it's a bad development: https://conspirator0.substack.com/p/on-social-media-data-access-for-researchers
(TBH, this article could easily be ten times as long.)
(TBH, this article could easily be ten times as long.)