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Thanks to Innovate UK we are building the most advanced, AI-powered narrative extraction software out there. Narratives frame how people see the world. We make them visible

TIL; those really weird/surreal AI generated images you see on spam advertising are down to scammers in India, Pakistan etc using Google to translate their prompts before pasting into image generators. Urdu, in particular, is not well supported by LLMs

What happened to the “AI election” is that it was not really a thing. Wildly false claims can be debunked quite quickly during an election campaign. Riots, pogroms, violent clashes on the other hand just need a few thousand people to feel justified nytimes.com/2024/08/23/pod…

In 2008, i was running undercover reporting for an documentary into Mohammed Al Fayed’s sexual abuse of Harrods employees. There was a reporter in Harrods filming when he was alive. Never knew why it was cancelled. But i knew it would come out one day bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckgv…

The equivalent of making the French eat beans on toast

Drake is suing the world’s biggest record company for using bots to amplify his rival’s track. We investigated the methods used. Online manipulation is going mainstream… check it out 👇

The first 3-6 months after a dictatorship falls are key for setting public opinion and effectively determining whether the transition will succeed or violence will break out again. So no surprise, the disinformation networks are going into overdrive right now

Syria already had the densest coverage by disinformation networks weve seen. Now it seems more networks are spawning. Important work by Zouhir Al-Shimale

What can Sudan’s failed transition teach those standing up governance in Syria now. Zouhir Al-Shimale has deep experience of both. Read the 🧵👇