What do I wish for 2026? Wish #1: I Wish Platforms Would Make Us Pause Before Sharing Wish #2: I Wish For Verification To Come With Public Receipts Wish #3: I Wish We Could Invert The Social Cost of Information Sharing The Disinformation Observer continues in 2026. More

Are these wishes realistic? Some of them. Are they comprehensive? Absolutely not. Are they perfect solutions? Not even close. But they are something as we go into 2026. https://t.co/o7seMt1zcP

In Chinese, exercises with names like “Justice Mission” are typically rendered with strongly moralized terms such as 义 (“righteousness”) or 正义 (“justice”) combined with words like 行动 (“operation”) or 任务 (“mission”), rather than neutral labels. The term “justice” in this

Interesting that it looks like something oddly specific. Its like a... blockade.

Yes, it happened. Active disinformation actors actually told the truth on their own platforms. Christmas did deliver this year and Ukraine headlines it. I try not to be bias, but this is so impressive that I’m actually happy. To all the warriors who literally made these

Sometimes the truth comes out, and no one knows how to lie their way out of it. In Kupyansk, years of Kremlin disinfo such as fake “victories,” staged videos, invented maps, all hit a wall when Ukraine’s gains became undeniable. Even pro‑war bloggers had to admit the lies had

MORE: Kremlin-affiliated milbloggers are acknowledging significant Ukrainian successes in the Kupyansk direction and criticizing the Kremlin and the Russian military command for providing false battlefield reports. ⬇️ The widespread milblogger criticism of the Kremlin’s and the

Russian gains likely will continue to be constrained to a slow foot pace, and any sudden Russian operational-level breakthrough remains unlikely. The Kremlin’s ongoing cognitive warfare effort that aims to paint Ukrainian defenses as on the verge of collapse and major Russian

Bit telling isn't it. The Kremlin has banned X in its own country, but its so... "celebrated" here? Hmm.

Why do people defend their deceivers, not despite evidence but because of it? To understand why contradiction strengthens belief, you have to see what the system is built to reward. The answer is the Loyalty Algorithm. Not a single line of code, but a system that turns

Every once in a while, the details of cleaning up a false information narrative shows. Note that Zelenskyy was reported by many sources and even geo tagged in Kupiansk. Therefore, this is really bad Russian disinformation.

The Bondi Beach attacks were not only a national tragedy but also an information crisis. Within hours of the shootings, false stories and manipulated narratives flooded social media. One blamed a fabricated foreign soldier, one erased a Muslim hero, and another cast the

Hours after gunmen killed 15 people at Sydney's Bondi Beach in an attack authorities said targeted a Jewish festival, a video of a Christmas fireworks display was shared in posts claiming it showed "Islamists" celebrating the shooting. A community group told AFP they had

Remember when people burned 5G towers because of conspiracy theories? I know, I’m digging deep into our memory vaults. Well, we know where that message came from. The groundwork started in 2019. RT aired seven programs that year about 5G technology. They had titles like “5G

Look closely. Very, and I mean it, very closely. We can conclude that this video is indeed AI.

This is a pretty badass way to counter a false narrative. Fuck yea.

From Taylor Swift’s album launch hijacked, to Russian trolls twisting a real‑estate story into a smear of Ukraine’s president, to AI‑generated soldiers fueling outrage politics in the UK, the mechanics are the same. Read now on: https://t.co/FJJpJacKey

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Every so often I look at what This Week in Disinformation has turned into and think: surely this can't be happening. This week features Taylor Swift, Bill Cosby, and several UK politicians. Note that they are all unrelated, yet somehow part of the same never-ending fever dream

This post is getting slaughtered in the comments. Sometimes, people see through the tactics and play the game, and they win.