HeyJaredDysinfluence
"Dysinfluence" - from Dys, meaning harmful, and influence - examines a critical evolution in digital manipulation - the strategic exploitation of influence systems to shape not just what people believe, but how they come to believe it.
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The Other Red Sea Axis: Inside a mysterious pro-Türkiye, anti-UAE media network (opens the original)
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I’ve been looking into a new influence operation called “Red Sea Axis”, which publishes extensively on #Sudan, #Somalia, #Ethiopia, #UAE and the Horn of Africa.It involves fake journalist personas, repurposed X accounts, and a network of “Axis” accounts. 🧵<div class="imag
An Influence Campaign Reached Millions of Europeans. But Who Was Behind the Websites Collecting Their Data? (opens the original)
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There’s another angle to the influence operation I recently documented that warrants attention. The network consisted of four ostensibly separate media outlets, The Levantine, Diplomatic Post, Frontline Radar and Global Reporters, publishing thousands of articles on international affairs.The campaign heavily promoted particular narratives about Sudan, especially content concerning the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), Islamists and the Muslim Brotherhood. But Sudan wasn’t the only subject. Paid conte
An AI-Powered, Coordinated Paid Campaign on Sudan's War, Disguised as Four Independent News Sites (opens the original)
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A week ago, a LinkedIn ad for a site called The Levantine came up in my feed. Curious, I started to dig.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="410" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g5m7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F
Something big has been targeting German voters and it probably isn’t Russia. (opens the original)
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Voters in Saxony-Anhalt go to the polls today. For a while now @sohanalysis and I have been tracking a foreign information manipulation and interference campaign that has been pushing racist, Islamophobic and xenophobic content at German audiences on YouTube, Facebook, TikTok and ordinary websites.<div class="image2-inse
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