Francesco Poldi
@noneprivacy.bsky.social
🔍👀 Senior Open Source Intelligence Developer and Researcher. 🔑👤 Privacy is a Human Right.
Last week, @lemonde.fr asked us if the World Cup had made racism explode online. Yes and no. - Twitter/X had more hate speech than FB, YouTube, TikTok and Insta **combined**. - But it mostly came from the same community spreading racist content all year anyway. Football was just today's excuse.
Hugging Face est parvenu à se donner l'image d'une organisation "AI Ethics". Mais le dernier rapport de @aiforensics.org par @paulbouchaud.com montre que l'entreprise étatsunienne dealeuse d'IA profite du cyberharcèlement massif des femmes par pornographie #deepfake. aiforensics.org/uploads/NCII...
Recent trends mention a one-click IP leak vulnerability in Telegram. Here what we need to know about that: osintops.com/why-the-tele... #osint #opsec #telegram
Why the Telegram "one-click IP leak" is not a vulnerability - OsintOps Project
Recent worrying rumours about a vulnerability featuring the IP address leak of a Telegram user have been circulating all over the internet. In this article we assess the severity of said “vulnerabilit...
osintops.com
People have been discussing about the new feature that allows you to geolocate X / Twitter account. Have you been wondering about it's accuracy as well? I don't recall of any login from Denmark, or even just tweeting from an IP geolocated in that country. #OSINT #X #geolocation
Last physical team meeting - and last group photo of a fantastic team! One month to go!
On 30 Sep and 1 Oct, we got together for the last physical consortium meeting in Thessaloniki. Our project ends in 1 month. We’re now preparing for the final steps and wrap-up. The legacy of veraAI will remain for many years to come! Thanks to a great team of diverse and committed players!
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📊 Operation Overload on Telegram: • 673 channels analysed • 7M+ messages • 2M+ media collisions (39% of 5.5M total) • 550+ channels share admins • 70% of Overload-linked emails point to Telegram • 10 verified channels drive core narratives
Operation Overload: An AI fuelled escalation of the Kremlin-linked propaganda effort - CheckFirst
The Russian propaganda operation targeted at media organisations and fact-checkers is still going strong. Operation Overload, which we first documented in June 2024 is now leveraging AI generated cont...
checkfirst.network
CheckFirst@checkfirst.network · last yr.🔴 NEW REPORT Alongside @reset.tech, we publish our third investigation into Operation Overload. ⤵️
Tomorrow (Tuesday 17th) from 2-5 pm CET, our first workshop in which we present project results kicks off. With @sympap.bsky.social @anaromero.bsky.social @dteyssou.bsky.social @nicolarighetti.bsky.social @kamilakoronska.bsky.social & others. You can still join via Zoom! Registration required
vera.ai presents its outcomes - and invites you all to attend two webinars!
VERification Assisted by AI. R&D & innovation co-funded by the HorizonEU. Continuing WeVerify work. And much more!
veraai.eu
Here’s how we found the identity of a key figure behind MrDeepfakes —one of the largest providers of non-consensual deepfake pornography in the world. Our latest investigation is out on YouTube now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTMa...
Unmasking MrDeepFakes
YouTube video by Bellingcat
youtube.com
iOS 18.4 introduced a new option in System Location Services called "Improve Location Accuracy" and it is enabled by default. You can find it under: Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services > System Services #Privacy
A Musk lieutenant ventured onto a roof to install Starlink. The Secret Service didn’t know he was there. The incident triggered a confrontation over conflicts of interest & cyber and physical security www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...
Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex (Gift Article)
Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.
nytimes.com
🚨 NEW REPORT 🔎 The Russian propaganda and disinformation “Pravda” network extended its coverage and aims (and succeeds) at polluting large language models (LLMs) and Wikipedia. 🗒️ X’s Community notes are unable to aptly address the spread of “Pravda” content on the platform.
“Pravda” Network: Worldwide Expansion and LLM, Wikipedia Pollution - CheckFirst
CheckFirst, in partnership with DFRLab, shows how the Russian propaganda and disinformation “Pravda” network extended its coverage and aims (and succeeds) at polluting large language models (LLMs) and...
checkfirst.network
Researchers at Uni Urbino uncovered a significant #disinformation campaign on #Facebook pertaining to #PopeFrancis’ health. Here's what they found. #InauthenticCoordinatedBehavior By @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social, @giadam.bsky.social, @informativeicts.bsky.social @mterenzi.bsky.social.
AI-Generated Images of Pope Francis Drive Traffic to Network of Suspicious Websites in Coordinated Campaign
VERification Assisted by AI. R&D & innovation co-funded by the HorizonEU. Continuing WeVerify work. And much more!
veraai.eu
Update your iPhones.. again! iOS 18.3.1 out today with a fix for an ITW USB restricted mode bypass (via Accessibility) support.apple.com/en-us/122174
We publish a new version (v0.84) of our verification plugin. It improves the keyframes file mode and assistant (both from @veraai_eu), archiving (from #DisinfoArchiving @factchecknet project) and includes a Japanese localization!
I learned a TON about Elon listening to this series. Hours and hours of great stuff that never felt drawn out. Now’s probably a great time to give it a listen.
litherland@lither.land · 2y agoThis series from @parismarx.com is still one of the best things on Elon imho techwontsave.us/episode/189_...
Just launched: the beta-testing program for the Coordinated Sharing Detection Service (powered by #CooRTweet), developed by ATC Athens Technology Center. More here: www.veraai.eu/posts/beta-t... cc @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social @nicolarighetti.bsky.social
Join Us as a Beta Tester for the Coordinated Sharing Detection Service!
VERification Assisted by AI. R&D & innovation co-funded by the HorizonEU. Continuing WeVerify work. And much more!
veraai.eu
Despite international sanctions, #Meta is accepting payments from Russian propagandists. Our latest report with @aiforensics.org & Reset underscore how Meta has failed to moderate over 8,000 political ads from the Kremlin-linked Social Design Agency (SDA). #SDALeak
Influence by Design: How Meta Accepted Russian Propaganda Payments Despite Sanctions - CheckFirst
Check First, in partnership with Reset.tech and AI Forensics, unveils the extent to which Kremlin-linked entity SDA have exploited Meta platforms to disseminate propaganda.
checkfirst.network
"[...] for now, the most pragmatic approach is to use AI to accelerate learning, not replace it entirely." #dev #coding #ai
The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding
A field guide and why we need to rethink our expectations
addyo.substack.com
Dear Community, We wish to draw your attention to a concerning development in the tactics employed by #OperationOverload. Our ongoing monitoring has uncovered a new technique involving the use of voice-generative AI.
We all understand how much it's important to keep the general public informed regarding breaking news, especially for the ones discussing pre-planned killings funded by sociopathic believes.
🚨 Reaching out to all the #OSINT community 🚨 Some of us may recall the osint.team chat and I see most of the long-time members are here on Bsky: if you may like to have a *.osint.team custom handle, please ping me!
osint.team
I've put together an OSINT starter kit. Let's unite the OSINT community on Bluesky! go.bsky.app/GaTRbT3
Last week I deleted my X account and I almost have more followers here already. What to do with this modest but unexpected popularity? Reminding you that last week I also presented a report on how to detect/analyse identity-based #disinformation fuelled #FIMI with simple #OSINT techniques 🏳️🌈🔎📒
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📢 With the support of Reset & 20+ fact-checking organisations, we unveil "Operation Overload". It is a sophisticated, cross-country disinformation campaign orchestrated to disseminate pro-Russian propaganda in the West. Find out more about #OperationOverload ⤵️
Operation Overload: how pro-Russian actors flood newsrooms with fake content and seek to divert their efforts - CheckFirst
“Please Check”. More that 800 organisations, among which many media outlets have been flooded with emails and social media mentions urging them to verify dubious claims undermining Ukraine, France and...
checkfirst.network
Today we're presenting our latest focus report from the CrossOver Finland project with @faktabaari.bsky.social. We found that Google News blends articles from news media, political parties and opinion sites without explicitly labelling them as such. 🔎 Read the full report here:
New report: Confusing Google search predictions and Google News sources, and unbalanced politics on TikTok and Instagram - CrossOver
Last March, Faktabaari & CheckFirst showed the significant over-representation of right-wing voices in YouTube’s video recommendations during the Finnish presidential election.
crossover.social
New report out by Mozilla and @checkfirst.network : Big tech ad #transparency databases under the #DSA have major gaps & are unreliable. We need standardisation for repositories - the EU Commission can & should issue guidelines! @thierrybreton.bsky.social foundation.mozilla.org/en/research/...
