Dysinfluence / Marc Owen Jones
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Interactive report
Manufacturing the “Great Replacement”
An investigation into an anti-Qatar influence operation.
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Report · UNESCO Chair, University of South Carolina
Enabling Atrocity in the MENA and Sudan
How digital influence operations are reframing and normalising violence and mass harm, documented over many years.
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An AI-Powered, Coordinated Paid Campaign on Sudan’s War, Disguised as Four Independent News Sites
Investigation reveals info op involving a Hong Kong company, three North Macedonians, 558 ads across LinkedIn & Meta, reaching 5 million accounts in the EU alone – all pushing one side of Sudan’s war.
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Amjad Taha, Muslim Brotherhood Maxxing and the Emirati Dysinfluencer Factory
Inside an AI-powered influence network linking Emirati influencers, pseudo-news sites, and the European far right.
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Who is Amjad Taha? A Deep Dive
Amjad Taha is a disinfluencer, so why does he keep getting platformed?
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I created a free interactive dashboard documenting all Meta’s influence operation takedowns
A searchable database and interactive dashboard collating all Meta’s CIB and ATP reports.
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The Other Red Sea Axis: Inside a mysterious pro-Türkiye, anti-UAE media network
An OSINT investigation into a mysterious media network backing Türkiye and Sudan’s army while targeting the UAE and Ethiopia.
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Analysis: I Detected Over 5,000 Bot Accounts Amplifying UAE-Aligned STC Narratives on Southern Yemen
A network and anomaly analysis of 56,000 tweets pushing Southern Yemen independence.
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How Google’s Gemini AI is Learning Pro-Israel Disinformation From Social Media
A fake quote attributed to Hamas official Khalil Al Hayya is being regurgitated by Gemini AI.
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AI-Generated Marjorie Taylor Greene Imposter Sparks Viral Rumours of Somaliland Recognition
A number of fake accounts and suspicious news outlets including MiddleEast 24 are pushing the narrative that recognition of Somaliland is inevitable in November.
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“Click This If You Love Jesus”: How AI Sloperations on Facebook Are Flooding 22 Million Users with Musk Memes, Disinformation, and Culture War Propaganda
From Musk memes and hacked celebs to #Boomerbait and disinformation, Facebook is being overrun by algorithmic sludge and right-wing propaganda – while Meta looks the other way.
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Today I found out from Facebook that I had died.
I am not dead, but my image, along with many others, is being used as part of a global crypto scam that creates fake news about real people and is deployed through Meta’s ad platform.