«Crucially, unlike the copy-paste botnets of the last decade, these swarms can produce context-aware, original content and vary their behaviour precisely to defeat existing repetition-based detection systems.»

#infOps #genAI #agenticAI #disinfo

«Yet X’s transparency information continued to place the account in Germany and showed it connecting through the “Iran Android App,” the regional version of X’s application.»

#astroturfing #Israel #Iran #infOps #elections #transparency

«Telegram, TikTok and Facebook do not operate as separate information environments when the same people, claims or content move between them.
The useful unit of analysis is often the sequence rather than the individual post.»
Optimising synergy.
#infOps #platforms #Russia #sabotage #Europe #EU

Ridiculous. Total lack of enforcement and accountability. Obviously, no one will reveal identifying information in a covert operation if they can get away with it. What use are info transparency requirements if the info is useless?

#transparency #Meta #ads #astroturfing #infOps #EU #regulation

The speed with which influence operations can move using genAI while maintaining opacity thanks to platform countermeasures/enforcement shortcomings is scandalous.

#Germany #Europe #EU #infOps #genAI #platforms #astroturfing