Google has released a tool to spot faked and doctored images - via @techreview technologyreview.com/f/615143/googl…
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Integrity Initiative
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Integrity Initiative
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Countering disinformation and malign influence. Promoting media literacy and media freedom. A European collective. Retweet not always endorsement.
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For all those talking about Russian de-escalation and Russia pausing and wanting to negotiate with Turkey and what not, Russia has been smashing #Idlib all day today non-stop. It wants the offensive to continue.
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#Kremlin is never content with waging historical war on just one state, they attack several countries at once.
This time #Estonia is a target of an attempt to whitewash #Soviet totalitarian past.
@KerstiKaljulaid @UrmasReinsalu @MFAestonia @UKRinEST @estNATO @EstoniaEaP
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Being a disinformation researcher now is more fascinating than ever. The nice thing is, so many skills can help. Data science, linguistics, text analysis, image recognition... Look for the incongruous, follow the evidence, keep calm and start digging.
nytimes.com/2020/02/09/tec…
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Disinformation research is more important than ever. But it involves a lot of false starts and dead ends. There is a risk of overhyping and sensationalizing. @benimmo, one of the most respected in the field, let me tag along with him for a few days. nytimes.com/2020/02/09/tec…
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Civilian bodies are strewn like so much litter along the destroyed streets in #KafarNoran, west of #Aleppo, following dozens of barrel bombs and airstrikes from the Russian and regime warplanes and helicopters. 9 people were murdered and 15 others injured.
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Straight out of a nightmare - @marcbennetts1 reports on Russia's crumbling health system
Marc Bennetts@marcbennetts1
My trip to hell. "Workers revealed that they are under orders to clean the disposable sheets that patients die on. The sheets are then returned to the wards. The policy is enforced even if the patients died of tuberculosis or other infectious diseases." thetimes.co.uk/article/2a3358…
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“Conspiracy theories are a way for people to exert control over or within unstable, complex systems” nymag.com/intelligencer/…
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Mr Jones review – gripping Stalin-era thriller with James Norton theguardian.com/film/2020/feb/…
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Невідомий герой з Уельсу, який розповів світу про Голодомор bbc.com/ukrainian/feat…?
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Thread for tankies. It was the same for Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians and other nations “liberated” by the Sovs and today justified by Russia.
Jenny Grant@SilenceInPolish
1/ 'It must be carried out with absolute calm so as not to spark resistance or panic among the local populace.' A short thread on the mass deportations of Poles to Siberia, the first of which began during the night of 9-10th February 1940, 80 years ago today. ...
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"During this period Firtash used an $11b loan from Gazprom Bank to back pro-Russian candidate Viktor Yanukovych in his 2010 Presidential Campaign." From "Poisoned by Gas: Institutional Failure, Energy Dependence, and Security" by Emily Holland (2017): academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8…
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Finally had a chance to watch @CodaStory's Generation Gulag – absolutely incredible work from @katia_patin and her team. Don't skip her essay on why now is the time to tell these stories codastory.com/series/generat…
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Assad have been using the same tactic since the start of the revolution in 2011. Hamza Al-Khatib, a 14 yr old who was arrested in the early days in Daraa was returned to his family as a corpse with horrifying torture marks on his body.
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For those unfamiliar with Syria, these videos aren't "leaked" by any stretch. They're purposefully allowed to scare the public in regime controlled areas to submit and never dissent and those in liberated areas in Idlib to flee Assad's wrath
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People, please stop spreading conspiracy theories. Some of you should be smarter than this.
Let me debunk this conspiracy theory floating around suggesting spike in SO2 emissions in Wuhan is due to massive burning of bodies
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“Moscow has transformed Ukraine into a giant laboratory for a new kind of warfare that defies easy definition and makes a mockery of more chivalrous attempts to understand international conflict.” atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainea…
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