Professor of Financial Accounting, Vice Dean of Programmes, co-Director, Cambridge Centre for Financial Reporting & Accountability, Univ of Cambridge Founder & Chair, Cambridge Disinformation Summit Research: IFRS, GAAP, governance, information risks
Caveat emptor. --- Major bitcoin wallet flaw drains $38 million worth of BTC in 25-minute sweep A hardware wallet randomness bug turned “impossible to guess” seeds into guessable ones, and $38 million is already gone. www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/07...
Major bitcoin wallet flaw drains 594 BTC in 25-minute sweepA hardware wallet randomness bug turned “impossible to guess” seeds into guessable ones, and $38 million is already gone.www.coindesk.comUK Parliament Call for Evidence The Communications and Digital Committee is launching an inquiry to examine whether the Online Safety Act has begun to make regulated online services safer for UK users. committees.parliament.uk/submission/3...
Submission - Committees - UK ParliamentWritten submissionscommittees.parliament.ukMedia company that paid settlement for credible defamation claims against it announces that it now has an AI partnership with Meta. Link to defamation settlement announcement from 2025: www.newsmax.com/newsfront/ne... www.newsmax.com/newsfront/ne...
Newsmax and Meta Enter AI Content PartnershipBOCA RATON, Fla.- Newsmax Inc. (NYSE:NMAX) announced today that the Company has entered into an AI content partnership with Meta Platforms.www.newsmax.comTactics of Psychological Manipulation playlist from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit webinar series. Free use for educators who would like content for media and manipulation literacy teaching programs. #disinformation #misinformation #scam #cult #psychology www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Tactics of psychological manipulation - YouTubeWebinars that help deconstruct how psychological manipulators engage and exploit audiences.Designed for educational use and encouraged for those who would li...www.youtube.comFormer Australian Prime Minister The Honourable Malcolm Turnbull: "Murdoch has done more damage to democracy in the English speaking countries than any other individual alive today." From his keynote at the 2026 Cambridge Disinformation Summit. youtube.com/shorts/riRrb...
Malcolm TurnbullYouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summityoutube.comOne primary incentive for disinformation campaigns seems to be to absolve or release people from their feelings of shame. Absolution of shame can enable impulsive, and potentially corrupt, behaviour that might otherwise be mitigated by shame. youtube.com/shorts/a0bS1...
Disinformation Campaigns to Absolve ShameYouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summityoutube.com"These actors identify, agitate, and entrench tribal communities. Once they have entrenched people into belief systems and communications echo chambers, they…further radicalize them, to fund and deploy fear and intimidation campaigns that degrade opposition power." youtu.be/kHav1fzAUz0?...
Organized crime syndicate leaders and mafia state actors entrench, defraud, and radicalize followersYouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summityoutu.beMichael SavageNEW: UK journalists are self-censoring stories about Trump and the right over safety fears Government-backed investigation finds risks are normalised in newsrooms. The abuse now means some journalists are changing what they write about… Grim findings: www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
Psychology Prof @lewan.uk demonstrates that online rhetoric predicts violent outcomes. youtu.be/xz2zMQLqFOY?...
Prof Stephan Lewandowsky research presentation on how social media rhetoric predicts real violenceYouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summityoutu.beemptywheelMusk has been socializing violence since long before that. Any analysis of Xitter as a tool of violence has to draw the continuity of Jan6 through to today.
"These actors identify, agitate, and entrench tribal communities. Once they have entrenched people into belief systems and communications echo chambers, they…further radicalize them, to fund and deploy fear and intimidation campaigns that degrade opposition power." youtu.be/kHav1fzAUz0?...
Organized crime syndicate leaders and mafia state actors entrench, defraud, and radicalize followersYouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summityoutu.beMark ChadbournThis is how the Far Right controls the narrative. Threats and intimidation.
NYU Journalism Professor @jayrosen.bsky.social discussed this problem in depth in 2023, with @sambrook.eurosky.social and @panievsky.bsky.social. youtu.be/MrAnVd35bcE?...
Journalism & Democratic Backsliding: thoughts on responsible journalismYouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summityoutu.beBrian Tyler Cohen"I understand journalists want to be neutral. But if you're a journalist in the US, you have an obligation to be biased— in favor of democracy. And Trump is anti-democratic... The longer the press pretends that Trump is not an enemy of their profession, the more runway he has to undermine them."
The next Cambridge Disinformation Summit will be held 23-25 Mar 2027 at the Univ. of Cambridge. Next year's Summit will focus on incentives and power infrastructures that support malign cognitive influence and disinformation campaigns. Call for papers opens mid Aug. youtu.be/syaKGKlcGl0?...
2027 Cambridge Disinformation Summit: Incentives and Power InfrastructuresYouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summityoutu.be"What we do know...is that crypto and meme assets have already become what I consider to be a financial cesspool that is leveraged by many of the darkest actors on the planet.” youtu.be/xJaJfROLs6Y?...
Prof Jagolinzer testifies to EU Parliament about the dark uses of cryptocurrencyYouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summityoutu.beKatie MartinThe cocaine in Spain falls mainly on the Blockchain
The U.S. CDC just published a narrative that indicates it does not understand scientific inference. "The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism." www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
Autism and VaccinesAnswers to common questions about vaccine safety and autism.www.cdc.govI’ve asked MPs whether @ofcom.bsky.social & other global regulators are capable of defending against coordinated hybrid-war-like campaigns from well-funded and nation-state-backed platform leaders who may be exploiting the harms that regulators try to prevent. Article suggests they’re not.
The ObserverToothless Ofcom can’t keep Britons safe online. Will Andy Burnham? It’s time to question whether the media regulator is fit for purpose after £950,000 fine for forum hosting pro-suicide content goes unpaid, writes Patricia Clarke https://bit.ly/4wO991w
@karlbode.com with a blunt, visceral assessment of SpaceX and (lack of) journalistic integrity in its reporting. Perhaps hyperbolic, but key points land, IMO: Valuation rests on highly uncertain, if not fantasy, future outcomes. Journalists are fawning & failing. karlbode.com/the-spacex-i...
The SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By An Overt White Supremacist HucksterOnce again a broken U.S. press couldn't bother to convey the truth to the public when it comes to America's shittiest rich person.karlbode.comDeconstructing malign cognitive influence and disinformation campaigns. youtu.be/H5PgN1oxDm4?...
Women in AI UK webinar on Malign Cognitive Influence and AI with Cambridge Professor Alan JagolinzerYouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summityoutu.beNYU Prof Jay Rosen, who IMO is the leading voice pushing for journalistic integrity during attacks on democracy, has published his "Internet Archive." Well worth a bookmark (an understatement).
Jay RosenSuppose you wanted to know what Rosen had to say about truth sandwiches. He too had helped publicize the phrase— and concept. Now you can go to "Jay Rosen's Internet Archive" and enter the phrase "truth sandwich." See what you get. pressthink.org/j/rosen-arch...
The next Cambridge Disinformation Summit will be held 23-25 Mar 2027 at the Univ. of Cambridge. Next year's Summit will focus on incentives and power infrastructures that support malign cognitive influence and disinformation campaigns. Call for papers opens mid Aug. youtu.be/syaKGKlcGl0?...
2027 Cambridge Disinformation Summit: Incentives and Power InfrastructuresYouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summityoutu.be