Another important point from @WillOremus
's story: The Trump admin has disbanded gov units that track and counter disinformation from foreign countries. Last month, the admin started canceling related NSF research grants. Meanwhile, platforms are also making it harder to track.
@martyswant
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Trump Admin Disbands Disinformation Tracking Units Amid Platform Opacity
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Russian Disinformation Campaign Uses GPT-3 Generative AI
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The story also cites newly published research from Clemson University, which found a different Russian-backed disinformation operation used generative AI (GPT-3) to boost the volume, diversity and effectiveness of propaganda. Here's a chart & the paper: https://
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Russia-Backed AI Disinformation Campaign Impersonates Journalists and Officials
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A new report from @ISDglobal details a Russia-aligned operation that used AI-generated voices and images to impersonate journalists, professors and police. The operation used bot networks to sow confusion and distrust with disinformation across X, Telegram and Bluesky.
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DOJ proposes banning Google from using first-party data
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Yep! One of the DOJ’s proposed remedies is banning Google from using first-party data from Google products — including YouTube and Chrome — to prevent it from advantaging its own ad tools.
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DOJ Files Major Antitrust Remedies Against Google Adtech
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Shortly before midnight, @TheJusticeDept and @Google officially filed their remedies proposals in the adtech antitrust trial. DOJ is asking for a major structural reset: AdX and DFP sell-offs, a 10-year ad exchange ban, open-source auction logic, and putting 50% of net revenues
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Is Google Forever? Market Sentiment Shifts Signal Change
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Plenty more in the full story, but the big question more are starting to ponder even before shifts in sentiment lead to shifts in ad spend: What if Google isn’t forever?
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Marketing’s Reckoning: Sentiment Shift on Google’s Dominance
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There’s a quiet vibe shift rippling through marketing circles as the industry comes to terms with the epistemic hangover of its long entanglement with Google. Today's story looks at the quite shift in sentiment with how marketers feel about the monopoly.
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Google New Front: Third-Party Cookies Joke Explained
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Hello from the 2025 #GoogleNewFront and
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Irish DPA Fines TikTok €530 Million for Data Protection Violations
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Here’s the official ruling: http://
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latest-news/irish-data-protection-commission-fines-tiktok-eu530-million-and-orders-corrective-measures-following
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