Sohan Dsouza
@sohandsouza.info
🥼 @MPIB-Berlin.bsky.social;
📚 computational social science, disinformation/polarization, crowdsourcing, OSINT;
🎓 @MIT.edu @MediaLab.bsky.social, @DFRLab.bsky.social #DigitalSherlocks;
📍 London, England;
https://www.sohandsouza.info
📚 computational social science, disinformation/polarization, crowdsourcing, OSINT;
🎓 @MIT.edu @MediaLab.bsky.social, @DFRLab.bsky.social #DigitalSherlocks;
📍 London, England;
https://www.sohandsouza.info
History repeating itself, with @drjlange.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
History repeating itself, with @drjlange.bsky.social
Why the lede image of small-boat arrivals when the vast, vast, vast majority of those "who moved to the UK after Brexit" arrived with visas and on planes?
#trashMedia
#trashMedia
November 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Why the lede image of small-boat arrivals when the vast, vast, vast majority of those "who moved to the UK after Brexit" arrived with visas and on planes?
#trashMedia
#trashMedia
"Matrix politics" and influence operations as a service in Russia, with @shekhovtsov.substack.com at UCL SEES.
#Kremlin #Russia #infops #infowar
#Kremlin #Russia #infops #infowar
November 3, 2025 at 10:35 AM
"Matrix politics" and influence operations as a service in Russia, with @shekhovtsov.substack.com at UCL SEES.
#Kremlin #Russia #infops #infowar
#Kremlin #Russia #infops #infowar
They went viral? Gee, I wonder how that could have happened.
Archive: archive.ph/https://www....
What happened: www.thebulwark.com/p/fox-news-g...
Archive: archive.ph/https://www....
What happened: www.thebulwark.com/p/fox-news-g...
November 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
They went viral? Gee, I wonder how that could have happened.
Archive: archive.ph/https://www....
What happened: www.thebulwark.com/p/fox-news-g...
Archive: archive.ph/https://www....
What happened: www.thebulwark.com/p/fox-news-g...
Ig Nobel Face-to-Face at the Royal Institution
November 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Ig Nobel Face-to-Face at the Royal Institution
Comes across like it's a fancy delicacy made of mostly cholesterol. 🤔
October 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Comes across like it's a fancy delicacy made of mostly cholesterol. 🤔
Is this how rule of law works now? How can you apply a law selectively based on "gender and religious motives" without gender and religious discrimination?
www.reuters.com/world/portug...
www.reuters.com/world/portug...
October 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Is this how rule of law works now? How can you apply a law selectively based on "gender and religious motives" without gender and religious discrimination?
www.reuters.com/world/portug...
www.reuters.com/world/portug...
Along with "New mandated fire-resistant cladding installed in Malory towers".
October 20, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Along with "New mandated fire-resistant cladding installed in Malory towers".
"Yet the 'Rex' in your name means 'King'."
October 19, 2025 at 8:57 AM
"Yet the 'Rex' in your name means 'King'."
Good news: this is X's mock-up of a user transparency screen. Hopefully will be shown as a "Continue?" dialog upon first Follow/Like/Share engagement with accounts, will facilitate further drill-down into each point, and will eventually show other signs of inauthenticity (like having been scrubbed).
October 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Good news: this is X's mock-up of a user transparency screen. Hopefully will be shown as a "Continue?" dialog upon first Follow/Like/Share engagement with accounts, will facilitate further drill-down into each point, and will eventually show other signs of inauthenticity (like having been scrubbed).
Imitating the UK government portal stylesheet in ads for purported car finance refunds.
Sneaky.
adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/A...
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/0805...
Sneaky.
adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/A...
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/0805...
October 3, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Imitating the UK government portal stylesheet in ads for purported car finance refunds.
Sneaky.
adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/A...
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/0805...
Sneaky.
adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/A...
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/0805...
Fun with Kevin Bacon pathfinding and other network analysis tricks at the workshop, and the latest case analyses and product updates onstage, at the @neo4j.com #GraphSummit today.
#London #tech #database #graphData
#London #tech #database #graphData
October 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Fun with Kevin Bacon pathfinding and other network analysis tricks at the workshop, and the latest case analyses and product updates onstage, at the @neo4j.com #GraphSummit today.
#London #tech #database #graphData
#London #tech #database #graphData
"Is an AI company implementing guardrails on problematic prompts for its public LLM service censoring you or itself?", and other fascinating questions at yesterday's @indexoncensorship.org panel discussion and magazine issue launch.
#LLMs #AI #censorship #tech #chatbots
#LLMs #AI #censorship #tech #chatbots
October 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
"Is an AI company implementing guardrails on problematic prompts for its public LLM service censoring you or itself?", and other fascinating questions at yesterday's @indexoncensorship.org panel discussion and magazine issue launch.
#LLMs #AI #censorship #tech #chatbots
#LLMs #AI #censorship #tech #chatbots
Well, since it has no fascist bigot implications, let's just name it after him henceforth.
For example, this is a photo of August Landmesser refusing to join others in doing the Musk salute:
For example, this is a photo of August Landmesser refusing to join others in doing the Musk salute:
October 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Well, since it has no fascist bigot implications, let's just name it after him henceforth.
For example, this is a photo of August Landmesser refusing to join others in doing the Musk salute:
For example, this is a photo of August Landmesser refusing to join others in doing the Musk salute:
Possibly the hairiest misinformation domain today. As "pharma nationalism" grows, and the US is taken over by Brain F Worm Jr and the guy whose first administration ran a major international antivax infop, there has never been a stronger case for vigilance in living memory.
October 1, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Possibly the hairiest misinformation domain today. As "pharma nationalism" grows, and the US is taken over by Brain F Worm Jr and the guy whose first administration ran a major international antivax infop, there has never been a stronger case for vigilance in living memory.
🇬🇧🕵️🧑💻🧑🏫 The British Computer Society has published my recent presentation for them in London, on my investigations of international influence operations and misinformation spread affecting the UK, and OSINT/SOCMINT basics.
▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBhH...
#disinfo #misinfo #infops #OSINT #SOCMINT #UK
▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBhH...
#disinfo #misinfo #infops #OSINT #SOCMINT #UK
September 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
🇬🇧🕵️🧑💻🧑🏫 The British Computer Society has published my recent presentation for them in London, on my investigations of international influence operations and misinformation spread affecting the UK, and OSINT/SOCMINT basics.
▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBhH...
#disinfo #misinfo #infops #OSINT #SOCMINT #UK
▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBhH...
#disinfo #misinfo #infops #OSINT #SOCMINT #UK
The non-profit world needs to develop effective comm preparations for and countermeasures to new threats from AI-generated disinformation, as Jonathan Gifford demonstrates.
September 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The non-profit world needs to develop effective comm preparations for and countermeasures to new threats from AI-generated disinformation, as Jonathan Gifford demonstrates.
Here it comes, kids.
September 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Here it comes, kids.
I can't say the plot development impressed me much, but STOREHOUSE's set design and execution blew me away, its interactive aspect was nice, and its physically analogised warning about information disorder certainly resonated.
September 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I can't say the plot development impressed me much, but STOREHOUSE's set design and execution blew me away, its interactive aspect was nice, and its physically analogised warning about information disorder certainly resonated.
When the one year old woke up just as you were drifting into a nap:
September 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
When the one year old woke up just as you were drifting into a nap:
My submission was selected for audience member questions at BBC's A Question of Science, hosted by Brian Cox, at the Francis Crick Institute in London.
September 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
My submission was selected for audience member questions at BBC's A Question of Science, hosted by Brian Cox, at the Francis Crick Institute in London.