🚨 NEW: The French High Commissioner for Children, Sarah El Haïry, has referred the findings of our report on Hugging Face to the European Commission. She also shared the findings with French regulatory agency @arcom.fr and to the reporting platform Pharos.

🔍 New Investigation: How did Hugging Face's "Spaces," a platform designed for sharing open-source AI demos, become a hub for tools capable of generating non-consensual intimate imagery? 🧵

🗓️ Tomorrow: Can the #DigitalServicesAct keep up with generative AI? Our Head of Policy Raziye Buse Çetin will join an important (online) discussion tomorrow hosted by @hiigberlin.bsky.social w/ @bredowinstitut.bsky.social and @dsaobservatory.bsky.social. 👉 Register here: tinyurl.com/npyxy6c6

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Last week's EU ban on AI nudifiers was one of few positive outcomes from the "simplification" process that culminated in the Digital Omnibus package. But as our researcher Silvia Semenzin noted recently in @techpolicypress.bsky.social, a ban alone cannot be the final answer to TFGBV.

🔎 What does it take to make platform accountability possible? Limelight Foundation's latest annual report features AI Forensics and traces our journey from Tracking Exposed to the adversarial audits that now help inform DSA enforcement.

Congratulations to our researcher Dr. Paul Bouchaud, who was awarded the Innovation Prize at the @viginum.bsky.social × Inria Scientific Prize. The prize recognized the paper “Beyond Guidelines: Assessing Meta’s Political Ad Moderation in the EU,” co-authored with VIGINUM.

📢 Ahead of a June 4 Dutch parliamentary debate on social media and electoral interference, AI Forensics and the wider HEIO collective (@postxsociety.bsky.social, Trollrensics, @uva.nl) have released preliminary findings from our social media monitoring of the 2026 Dutch municipal elections. 🧵

Heading to #TechAbuseConf in London? Thursday @ 11 BTS: Senior Researcher @silviasemenzin.bsky.social will present work building on our report on IBSA networks on Telegram. She'll explore the transformation of abusive practices, cross-platform dynamics + challenges to regulation. See you there!

🔎 Snapchat Ads Repository: A case study in independent auditing and platform accountability under the DSA Our latest investigation, conducted in April, found that Snapchat’s advertising transparency tools fell far short of requirements for very large online platforms under the DSA. 🧵

On April 8, we released "Harassment as Infrastructure,” detailing widespread networks of abuse against women and girls on Telegram. In response, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov accused the EU of pushing for “surveillance and censorship” via “controlled NGOs and media.” 🧵👇

🚨 NEW: Large-scale Telegram networks are spreading and monetizing non-consensual intimate images (NCII), including CSAM, in Italy and Spain. Our investigation reveals an organized ecosystem of abuse at scale — involving 25,000 users. 🧵

“Generative AI has arrived in France’s local elections.” That was Le Monde’s headline just a month before the 2026 municipal vote. But what did that actually mean in practice? 👇

In the final days of 2025, thousands of non-consensual AI-generated images spread across X. We investigated it before regulators were even back from holiday.

Marc Faddoul considers all the ways that AI output can be influenced without transparency or accountability.

Who’s Whispering in Your Chatbot’s Ear?

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As elections unfold in both the NL and FR, use our updated Human Guide for AI Detection to make sense of the information around you. 🔎 Meanwhile, we’ll be monitoring TikTok to examine whose voices are amplified, if disinformation is spreading, and how GenAI is shaping what people see. Stay tuned!

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Navigating between AI and non-AI content is becoming increasingly difficult. At @aiforensics.org we may not offer a magic formula but we can offer some tools. Today, we’re publishing an updated version of The Human Guide to Detecting AI Imagery, building on our continued work on AI-generated content

Last week, on the occasion of International Women’s Day, our senior researcher Dr Silvia Semenzin presented AI Forensics’ research on technology-facilitated gender-based violence at several high-level events in Madrid, Paris, and Brussels.

Are you a regulator or civil society expert working on disinformation? 📅 If so, mark your calendars! On April 9, our director @marcfaddoul.com will join @disinfo.eu for a webinar: “Civil society evidence under the DSA: lessons from AI Forensics.”

Are you a regulator or civil society expert working on disinformation? 📅 If so, mark your calendars! On April 9, our director Marc Faddoul will join EU DisinfoLab for a webinar: “Civil society… | A...

Are you a regulator or civil society expert working on disinformation? 📅 If so, mark your calendars! On April 9, our director Marc Faddoul will join EU DisinfoLab for a webinar: “Civil society evid...

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EU DisinfoLab@disinfo.eu · 5mo ago

'EVIDENCE & ENFORCEMENT' series of webinars: 🔹 10 March: DSA: Unfolding the European Commission’s first decision against X us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 🔹 9 April: Civil society evidence under the DSA: lessons from AI Forensics us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

For International Women’s Day, it’s worth acknowledging a troubling pattern we uncovered in our 2025 investigations of online harm: much of it disproportionately targets women and girls. Unfortunately, this is not surprising.👇

I had a great conversation with Paul Bouchaud at @aiforensics.org about their research tracking the proliferation of Grok-generated deepfakes across the internet, which disproportionately impacted women. Check it out in the most recent of AWO's newsletter here!

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AWO’s Algorithm Governance Roundup is out. This month we spoke with Dr Paul Bouchaud at @aiforensics.org about their audit of Grok which charted the rapid rise of sexualised deepfakes generated on X and Grok Imagine.👇 eomail5.com/web-version?...

Last week marked two years of the DSA. To mark the occasion, AI Forensics joined the DSA & Platform Regulation Conference, organized by the @dsaobservatory.bsky.social, to share our research and reflect on the future of platform governance in the EU. We contributed two presentations.👇

Last Monday, I found a dinner invitation from Emmanuel Macron in my junk mail. It was for the AI Summit anniversary, 24 hours later. Almost missed it! I jumped on a train and found myself at the Élysée the following evening. The room was filled with leading AI academics, startups, and big corps

Planning on joining @dsaobservatory.bsky.social’s #DSA #Conference in #Amsterdam next week? Come say hi and learn about some of our latest research on Tuesday, February 17 👇

🧵 AI bias isn’t just a chatbot problem. It’s increasingly built into our phones 📱 Our new audit finds the core on-device model powering Apple Intelligence is far from neutral.

🔍 What does TikTok US’s new ownership really mean for users? The transition has raised concerns, from changes to privacy policies to potential censorship. 🗣️Our Head of Research, Salvatore Romano, breaks it down in a new interview with Thomas Bourdeau for @rfi.fr: tinyurl.com/2v8zavmk

🔒Safer Internet Day is a good moment to reflect on how our investigations are helping push the internet in a safer direction — and how we can continue being a catalyst for change in 2026. 🧵

Grok update 🔍 Our latest data shows that safeguards implemented on X did reduce harmful outputs. But on Grok.com, we continue to identify AI-generated images, including some depicting suspected minors.👇

📣 Digital interference in European elections is growing — and it’s not going away. That’s why independent monitoring is so vital. 🧵

Stay tuned! We’ve received many requests in recent days for updates on our Grok report. We’re currently conducting additional monitoring and analysis and will have more to share shortly. 🔍

⚠️ New Investigation: Grok is systematically “undressing” women and generating extremist content. Our latest research shows this isn’t just anecdotal, but a pattern at scale.

Le dernier rapport de l'ONG @aiforensics.org à propos de TikTok montre la profusion de ces comptes qui tentent de surfer sur des "modes" et des contenus outranciers pour bénéficier de la monétisation, et parfois vendre des "formations en IA" aiforensics.org/work/agentic...