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
Social media firms have *finally* realised #AI slop will hurt their bottom lines Most users don't want it & will disengage, leave platforms as it fills their feeds Firms switch from relentlessly pushing AI tools/content to "we never meant for this to happen..." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Snapchat joins other platforms in the fight against 'AI slop'Snapchat, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Substack are trying to combat the proliferation of fake AI content.www.bbc.co.uk
In case you are not familiar with how migration can be used as a weapon, here are a few helpful links describing this despicable and barbaric practice. bsky.app/profile/soci...
Social Media Lab"As part of Moscow’s hybrid war toolbox, Russia’s weaponization of migration becomes an even more apparent means of destabilizing the West. Across three continents, a pattern of strategically engineered migration emerges ..." www.hoover.org/research/wea...
Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...
Transform any place with Nano Banana in Google EarthCustom images — generated from Google Earth satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery — help you redesign any location.blog.googleUK 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.ukTactics 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.comMedia 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.com
Ben McKenzie: I spent the last several years documenting fraud in the cryptocurrency industry. We are at a point of crisis when it comes to crypto's influence over our legislative process. A foreign company that issues crypto used by criminal organizations appears to have shaped Trump's GENIUS Act
May the odds be ever in your favor.
The VergeX Money is launching in the US starting today
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.
Former 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
JUSTIN SUN: ".. “I never expected this to happen to me. .. I thought surely these people would not do what they did with such a public profile attached." @nymag.com #WLFI nymag.com/intelligence...
The Billionaire Blowing the Whistle on Donald Trump’s Crypto ShopWorld Liberty Financial has put $800 million in the president’s pocket. Justin Sun made a huge investment — and was shocked by what he saw.nymag.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...
I’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
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."
After monitoring malign cognitive influencers and disinformation campaigns for years & witnessing the systemic wreckage unfolding, I am still surprised how many people are seemingly stuck in normalcy bias. Policymakers need to understand quickly the degree of malice & aggression in these efforts.
"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 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.beCrypto ATMs are scam tools and are increasingly being banned in several States, including Utah. @kslnewsutah.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwef...
Why Utah Cities Are Banning Crypto ATMsYouTube video by KSL News Utahm.youtube.com