Alan Jagolinzer

@jagolinzer.bsky.social

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

Over the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements, according to details of the ads shared with WIRED.

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

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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.

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Caveat emptor. --- Major bitcoin wallet flaw drains $38 million worth of BTC in 25-minute sweep A hardware wallet randomness bug turned “impossible to guess” seeds into guessable ones, and $38 million is already gone. www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/07...

Major bitcoin wallet flaw drains 594 BTC in 25-minute sweep

A hardware wallet randomness bug turned “impossible to guess” seeds into guessable ones, and $38 million is already gone.

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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

"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 followers

YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit

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Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · last wk.

This is how the Far Right controls the narrative. Threats and intimidation.