Fan Yang
@fanyang.bsky.social
Research fellow at melbourne law school node of ARC centre of excellence for automated decision-making society (adm+s) Study tech, information, migration, and labour web: fanyang.fan based in Naarm
There are some of the thoughts in relation to my visiting fellowship with HKBU I've settled down here on my personal blog. fanyangfan.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/m...
My visiting fellowship @ Hong Kong Baptist University [1]
Here’s to the Hong Kong film industry, whose golden legacy first inspired this trip.
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After showing how LLMs animate this paradox in their technical operation, I argue that these systems are (of course) political as the idea of a complete “model” offers the fantasy of a closed system that provides each subject a stable identity and the opportunity to attain absolute knowledge (2/2).
So happy to have my first journal article published today! I argue that LLMs animate a paradox in which similarity only emerges through difference. I show how this paradox is operationalised by LLMs as they generate a natural language response (1/2) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
“Time that the software deems “unproductive” could be deducted from his pay, and if a few minutes passed without him typing, the system pinged him to ask whether he had been working.” nymag.com/intelligence...
The Laid-off Scientists and Lawyers Training AI to Steal Their Careers
Experienced white-collar workers are now part of a miserable gig economy.
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“The Senate ought to have a sign on it that says, ‘Owned by Big Tech,’” Senator Josh Hawley said, “because the truth is, nothing that Big Tech objects to will go across that Senate floor. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/t...
A.I. Incites a New Wave of Grieving Parents Fighting for Online Safety
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Updated my personal website, where you can learn delightful facts like what they call Theory of Vibe in France ('Théorie de la « vibe »')
RECapture team on 'We're fighting disinformation in all the wrong ways.' Regulating disinformation merely as ‘content’ to be prevented or corrected is unproductive and limiting. The real task is to interrogate the system that feeds it. www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/27/f...
We're fighting disinformation in all the wrong ways
Regulating disinformation merely as ‘content’ to be prevented or corrected is unproductive and limiting. The real task is to interrogate the system that feeds it.
crikey.com.au
RECapture team submitted to the Inquiry into the 2025 federal election. We provided our high-level and operational recommendations for improving trust and security in digital campaigns for Australian elections. @coolrobbie.bsky.social et al. Link to our submission doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Australian political advertising and disinformation on Chinese-language media services: Four recommendations for improving trust and security in digital campaigns for Australian elections
Our report details recommendations provided to the Inquiry into the 2025 federal election for the Australian Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters. The report is based on our res...
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A study of falsehoods spread during the Voice referendum and 2025 federal election on Chinese and American platforms reveals why Australia must change its approach to tackling disinformation.
We're fighting disinformation in all the wrong ways
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"By appearing as opinion, disinformation passes itself off as a personal viewpoint rather than AS A COVER FOR DECEPTIVE INFLUENCE” (my emphasis) — great article in @crikey.com.au by @fanyang.bsky.social Robbie Fordyce & Luke Heemsbergen #auspol
Crikey@crikey.com.au · 9mo agoA study of falsehoods spread during the Voice referendum and 2025 federal election on Chinese and American platforms reveals why Australia must change its approach to tackling disinformation.
Now live: “Contextualising disinformation during the 2023 Voice referendum on WeChat: Manipulating knowledge gaps and whitewashing Indigenous rights” Fan Yang, Luke Heemsbergen, Robbie Fordyce misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/cont...
Our paper on the Voice referendum on WeChat shows policymakers & factchecker might be fighting the wrong battle against disinfo. Our case & numbers show how disinfo works on the ground. Check out the paper (w. Luke Heemsbergen & @coolrobbie.bsky.social) url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/fLyrCxnMJ5...
Contextualizing critical disinformation during the 2023 Voice referendum on WeChat: Manipulating knowledge gaps and whitewashing Indigenous rights | HKS Misinformation Review
Outside China, WeChat is a conduit for translating and circulating English-language information among the Chinese diaspora. Australian domestic political campaigns exploit the gaps between platform go...
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BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! @mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and myself have combined our collective brains and written a wide-reaching introduction to the complex and interdisciplinary field of Game Studies in this forthcoming book for Polity. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
We’ve “watched the web mutate from democratic commons into a gamified engine of manipulation and misinformation. The dream of a cooperative knowledge society has faded into an architecture of monetized attention and algorithmic control.” lareviewofbooks.org/article/mind...
Mindless Machines, Mindless Myths | Los Angeles Review of Books
Erik J. Larson thinks about “Mindless: The Human Condition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” which traces Robert Skidelsky’s philosophical reckoning with AI, automation, and the illusion of prog...
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Next @wearehades.bsky.social seminar looks amaze, featuring MDAP's resident historian, data-nerd, map maker, & cat lover @emily-fitzgerald.bsky.social Monday 8 September, 2pm, online, all welcome! Register rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/same-d...
HADES@wearehades.bsky.social · 12mo agoWhile maps may appear as an objective narrative, the mapmaker is telling a story – using data, design & presentation. In this seminar we'll explore different maps made using the same data and question the stories maps tell – and what we can learn from them! rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/same-d...
Only a couple weeks to go until my mate @katemannell.bsky.social and I have a yarn with our fellow panelists about the infrastructures of noise @aussts.bsky.social 2025 conference. Thanks to @blueskychris.bsky.social, there’ll be a streaming link on the day: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/aussts-202...
AusSTS 2025 Day 1 Keynote "Infrastructures of Noise"
Join AusSTS online for the first keynote of 'Signals and noises' with Dang Nguyen, Fabian Offert, Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal & Kate Mannell.
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Argentine cooperatives launched AI4coops, showcasing the way they are engaging with AI in their projects. ai4coops.ar/en
"Our research reveals while Australian news media often focus on foreign interference, in this election cycle, disinformation is being driven by commercial and domestic political interests," write @fanyang.bsky.social, Luke Heemsbergen, and @coolrobbie.bsky.social. Read more:
How election misinformation spreads on Chinese social media
Hundreds of thousands of people in Australia use these platforms.
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I wrote a very long blog post about AI writing. I hope you'll read it. meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-mental...
The mental tyranny of AI writing
An arduously long blog post
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In this investigative report, ADM+S researchers Fan Yang, Robbie Fordyce, with Luke Heemsbergen worked with ABC, to uncover political disinformation on Chinese social media platform RedNote @fanyang.bsky.social @coolrobbie.bsky.social sky.social bit.ly/41KYczP
A deepfake Dutton speaks Mandarin on Chinese social media platform
A series of attacks on Australian political parties on emerging Chinese social media platform RedNote raise concerns about misinformation, disinformation and the risk of foreign interference ahead of ...
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Chinese social media new election battleground. Hear more from ADM+S researchers Fan Yang and Robbie Fordyce on ABC's The World Today @fanyang.bsky.social @coolrobbie.bsky.social #misinformation bit.ly/4iFwawv
Chinese social media new election battleground - ABC listen
Nearly 700,000 Australians use the Chinese platform Rednote, and it's become a new battleground for targeting Chinese-Australian voters.
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News media’s legitimization of disinformation: propaganda and the length of the Uluru Statement Victoria Fielding, Robert Boucaut, Catherine Son & Alexander H. Beare - [Open Access] www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
News media’s legitimization of disinformation: propaganda and the length of the Uluru Statement
News media notionally plays an important role in democracy by disseminating quality information which the public needs to make democratic decisions in their best interests. Yet, news media can also...
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Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️
Oh hey! The special issue that I co-edited is out now. "Sociology of emotion and affect in the age of mis-, dis-, and mal-information". A collection of three fascinating papers at the horizon of what we know about this topic. www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...
Frontiers | Editorial: Sociology of emotion and affect in the age of mis-, dis-, and mal-information
In recent public discourse, particularly with elections in powerful countries, the term disinformation has entered our lexicon. Although the intentional spre...
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Researcher Spotlight 💡 ADM+S Research Fellow Dr @fanyang.bsky.social (UoM) is interested in studying technologies, #digital labour, and information distribution among #migrant communities in Australia. 🔗 View GenAI Concepts: apo.org.au/node/327400 📍 Learn more: www.admscentre.org.au/fan-yang/
Platforms, misinformation, and migrant communities
YouTube video by ADM+S Centre
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In "DeepAesthetics," Anna Munster explores aesthetics, artificial intelligence, & machine learning to understand the contours of computational experience and the possibility to artfully use AI to create new futures. Read the intro for free on our website now! #CriticalTheory https://buff.ly/4hIcJmz
