McKenzie Sadeghi
@mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social
Researching AI & Foreign Influence at NewsGuard
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Add the ISD to the growing list of orgs (four now) warning us about AI chatbots repeating Russian disinfo... or Russia intentionally poisoning these things... The other three are the American Sunlight Project, NewsGuard, and Open Measures.
www.isdglobal.org/digital_disp...
www.isdglobal.org/digital_disp...
Investigation | Talking Points: When chatbots surface Russian state media
As chatbots rival search engines as the go-to source for information, their vulnerability to state propaganda poses new risks for information integrity and urgent questions for regulators.
www.isdglobal.org
October 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Add the ISD to the growing list of orgs (four now) warning us about AI chatbots repeating Russian disinfo... or Russia intentionally poisoning these things... The other three are the American Sunlight Project, NewsGuard, and Open Measures.
www.isdglobal.org/digital_disp...
www.isdglobal.org/digital_disp...
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-AI chatbot disinformation doubles in a year
-Self-replicating attack hits npm packages
-Android switches to risk-based security updates
-Hackers breach Gucci parent company
-BreachForums admin resentenced to 3 years
Podcast: risky.biz/RBNEWS479/
Newsletter: news.risky.biz/risky-bullet...
-Self-replicating attack hits npm packages
-Android switches to risk-based security updates
-Hackers breach Gucci parent company
-BreachForums admin resentenced to 3 years
Podcast: risky.biz/RBNEWS479/
Newsletter: news.risky.biz/risky-bullet...
September 17, 2025 at 7:53 AM
-AI chatbot disinformation doubles in a year
-Self-replicating attack hits npm packages
-Android switches to risk-based security updates
-Hackers breach Gucci parent company
-BreachForums admin resentenced to 3 years
Podcast: risky.biz/RBNEWS479/
Newsletter: news.risky.biz/risky-bullet...
-Self-replicating attack hits npm packages
-Android switches to risk-based security updates
-Hackers breach Gucci parent company
-BreachForums admin resentenced to 3 years
Podcast: risky.biz/RBNEWS479/
Newsletter: news.risky.biz/risky-bullet...
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PolitUkladchik, a Russian AI-generated satirical news program “demonstrates how the Kremlin is beginning to use AI as a tool for spectacle and as a shield for plausible deniability,” writes @mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social in a Reality Check Commentary.
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/russias-de...
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/russias-de...
Russia’s Defense Ministry Launches an AI-Generated, Anti-West News Show, Blurring the Line Between Satire and Propaganda
Commentary by McKenzie Sadeghi, NewsGuard’s AI and Foreign Influence Editor
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM
PolitUkladchik, a Russian AI-generated satirical news program “demonstrates how the Kremlin is beginning to use AI as a tool for spectacle and as a shield for plausible deniability,” writes @mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social in a Reality Check Commentary.
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/russias-de...
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/russias-de...
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Fin du thread. 10/10. Voici le lien vers l’audit de @newsguard.bsky.social
Bravo à @mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social et à Chine Labbé www.newsguardtech.com/fr/special-r...
Bravo à @mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social et à Chine Labbé www.newsguardtech.com/fr/special-r...
Le taux de fausses informations répétées par les chatbots d’IA a presque doublé en un an
www.newsguardtech.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Fin du thread. 10/10. Voici le lien vers l’audit de @newsguard.bsky.social
Bravo à @mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social et à Chine Labbé www.newsguardtech.com/fr/special-r...
Bravo à @mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social et à Chine Labbé www.newsguardtech.com/fr/special-r...
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As to why they're obsessing over us at @newsguard.bsky.social -- it seems this report from our team (link below) struck a nerve.
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/russian-di...
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/russian-di...
Russian Disinformation Campaign Targets Moldova’s Pro-EU President Ahead of Parliamentary Elections
By Eva Maitland
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com
August 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
As to why they're obsessing over us at @newsguard.bsky.social -- it seems this report from our team (link below) struck a nerve.
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/russian-di...
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/russian-di...
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"According to misinformation tracker NewsGuard, the campaign...takes advantage of high-profile events to pump out fabricated content from various publications, including ABC News, BBC and most recently POLITICO."
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Russia is quietly churning out fake content posing as US news
A pro-Russian propaganda group is taking advantage of high-profile news events to spread disinformation — and they’re spoofing reputable news outlets to do it.
www.politico.com
August 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
"According to misinformation tracker NewsGuard, the campaign...takes advantage of high-profile events to pump out fabricated content from various publications, including ABC News, BBC and most recently POLITICO."
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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Whatever you think of NewsGuard’s approach or the usefulness of its labels, the decision speaks to how the internet, political landscape, and notions of collective truth have polarized beyond recognition since 2018. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/lang...
“Language that once clarified is now obscuring”: NewsGuard retires the labels “misinformation” and “disinformation”
The end of an era?
Since its launch in 2018, NewsGuard has been in the business of labels. The company has rated the reliability of online news and information, giving publishers "nutrition labels" t...
www.niemanlab.org
July 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Whatever you think of NewsGuard’s approach or the usefulness of its labels, the decision speaks to how the internet, political landscape, and notions of collective truth have polarized beyond recognition since 2018. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/lang...
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Quite a big moment, Newsguard moving away from the terms misinformation and disinformation.
It's been something I've been thinking about for a while. The terms have become almost as weaponised as the likes of "fake news" and can be off-putting.
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/commentary...
It's been something I've been thinking about for a while. The terms have become almost as weaponised as the likes of "fake news" and can be off-putting.
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/commentary...
Commentary: Why We’re Moving Beyond “Misinformation” and “Disinformation”
Welcome to Reality Check, a newsletter that helps you keep track of the false claims and online conspiracy theories that shape our world — and who’s behind them.
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com
July 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Quite a big moment, Newsguard moving away from the terms misinformation and disinformation.
It's been something I've been thinking about for a while. The terms have become almost as weaponised as the likes of "fake news" and can be off-putting.
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/commentary...
It's been something I've been thinking about for a while. The terms have become almost as weaponised as the likes of "fake news" and can be off-putting.
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/commentary...
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In the run up to the 2024 election, media outlets, think tanks, and policymakers warned of AI-generated misinformation. Using data compiled by NewsGuard, @mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social writes that the real threat is AI amplifying existing disinformation in polished and authoritative language.
AI and Data Voids: How Propaganda Exploits Gaps in Online Information
Chatbots are absorbing and amplifying falsehoods seeded by Russia, China, and Iran, with few safeguards in place.
www.lawfaremedia.org
June 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
In the run up to the 2024 election, media outlets, think tanks, and policymakers warned of AI-generated misinformation. Using data compiled by NewsGuard, @mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social writes that the real threat is AI amplifying existing disinformation in polished and authoritative language.
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"The Pravda Network appears to be designed and created solely to affect … AI chatbots," said McKenzie Sadeghi, AI and foreign influence editor at disinformation monitor NewsGuard." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
Pro-Russian influence operation targeting Australia in lead-up to election
A pro-Russian influence operation has been targeting Australia in the lead-up to this weekend's federal election, the ABC can reveal, attempting to "poison" AI chatbots with propaganda.
www.abc.net.au
May 3, 2025 at 6:16 AM
"The Pravda Network appears to be designed and created solely to affect … AI chatbots," said McKenzie Sadeghi, AI and foreign influence editor at disinformation monitor NewsGuard." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
Great conversation with @drmarkjacobson.bsky.social and @jimludes.bsky.social about the Pravda network's effort to infiltrate AI: open.spotify.com/episode/5CTb...
LLM Grooming
The Active Measures Newsletter Podcast · Episode
open.spotify.com
May 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Great conversation with @drmarkjacobson.bsky.social and @jimludes.bsky.social about the Pravda network's effort to infiltrate AI: open.spotify.com/episode/5CTb...
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Big far-right podcasts are pushing the false narrative that Ukraine is selling US weapons to cartels.
@mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social tracks how the propaganda spread from a QAnon influencer to a Russian network of fake news sites, then to Tucker Carlson.
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/how-the-kr...
@mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social tracks how the propaganda spread from a QAnon influencer to a Russian network of fake news sites, then to Tucker Carlson.
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/how-the-kr...
May 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Big far-right podcasts are pushing the false narrative that Ukraine is selling US weapons to cartels.
@mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social tracks how the propaganda spread from a QAnon influencer to a Russian network of fake news sites, then to Tucker Carlson.
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/how-the-kr...
@mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social tracks how the propaganda spread from a QAnon influencer to a Russian network of fake news sites, then to Tucker Carlson.
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/how-the-kr...
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Fin du thread. 17/17. Félicitations à Natalie Huet, Chine Labbé et Sadeghi Mckenzie pour ce travail d’enquête et d’analyse aussi remarquable qu’indispensable. Lien vers le rapport : newsguardtech.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?...
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April 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Fin du thread. 17/17. Félicitations à Natalie Huet, Chine Labbé et Sadeghi Mckenzie pour ce travail d’enquête et d’analyse aussi remarquable qu’indispensable. Lien vers le rapport : newsguardtech.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?...
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One insightful comment from @mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social : Russia Used to Deny Interfering. Now it’s Celebrating its Successes
Commentary: Russia Used to Deny Interfering. Now it’s Celebrating its Successes.
With fewer guardrails and more reach, Moscow openly cheers its disinformation wins.
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com
April 24, 2025 at 10:08 AM
One insightful comment from @mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social : Russia Used to Deny Interfering. Now it’s Celebrating its Successes
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The Truth About Russia’s New ‘GFCN’ : @mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social: "As fact-checkers in the U.S. are laid off [...] Russia is seizing the moment — not to debunk falsehoods, but to discredit the very concept of #factchecking. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/commentary...
Commentary: The Truth About Russia’s New ‘Global Fact-Checking Network’
Russia’s initiative is not fact-checking, writes NewsGuard AI and Foreign Influence Editor McKenzie Sadeghi. It’s an effort to defend Russian disinformation.
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com
April 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The Truth About Russia’s New ‘GFCN’ : @mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social: "As fact-checkers in the U.S. are laid off [...] Russia is seizing the moment — not to debunk falsehoods, but to discredit the very concept of #factchecking. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/commentary...
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Russian propoganda is reportely influencing AI chatbot results
Russian propoganda is reportely influencing AI chatbot results
Russian propaganda may be influencing certain answers from AI chatbots including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s Meta AI, according to a new report. NewsGuard, a company that develops rating systems for news and information websites, claims to have found…
tcrn.ch
March 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Russian propoganda is reportely influencing AI chatbot results
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“If there’s one thing we’ve learned from tracking Russian disinformation at NewsGuard, it’s that when Moscow makes false claims about the West … it often serves as a foreshadowing of the Kremlin’s own actions,” writes @mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/commentary...
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/commentary...
Commentary: How Kremlin Propaganda Foreshadowed Trump’s Call for Ukrainian Elections
A pattern of projection: Russia’s disinformation claims reveal more about Russia than about its Western targets
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com
February 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
“If there’s one thing we’ve learned from tracking Russian disinformation at NewsGuard, it’s that when Moscow makes false claims about the West … it often serves as a foreshadowing of the Kremlin’s own actions,” writes @mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/commentary...
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/commentary...
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NEW on our website
AI slop can be found on social media and some 'news' websites.
Is it a threat to the information ecosystem?
@marinaadami.bsky.social spoke to @swachter.bsky.social, @mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social and David Caswell to find out:
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/ai-gene...
AI slop can be found on social media and some 'news' websites.
Is it a threat to the information ecosystem?
@marinaadami.bsky.social spoke to @swachter.bsky.social, @mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social and David Caswell to find out:
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/ai-gene...
AI-generated slop is quietly conquering the internet. Is it a threat to journalism or a problem that will fix itself?
Three experts discuss the rise of low-quality content and its implications for the profession, the news industry and the public sphere.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
November 26, 2024 at 12:08 PM
NEW on our website
AI slop can be found on social media and some 'news' websites.
Is it a threat to the information ecosystem?
@marinaadami.bsky.social spoke to @swachter.bsky.social, @mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social and David Caswell to find out:
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/ai-gene...
AI slop can be found on social media and some 'news' websites.
Is it a threat to the information ecosystem?
@marinaadami.bsky.social spoke to @swachter.bsky.social, @mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social and David Caswell to find out:
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/ai-gene...