So the Russian officer (Girkin) who started the Donbas war in 2014 is in jail, the only Russian general to carry out a successful maneuver in 2022 (Surovikin) has been relieved of duty, and the only Russian commander to take a city in 2023 (Prigozhin) has been murdered.

Putin was in need of a spectacular, theatrical act of violence: This was it theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

🎉 That's a wrap! 🙌 Thanks to all our attendees and speakers for joining us 🤗 All these brilliant discussions and encounters, and seeing the community come together to advance our common mission made it all worthwhile!

The situation in the Middle East is growing more dire by the hour. At a crucial moment like this, it is vital to be clear on the fundamental principle of respecting & protecting civilians.

How (well) do AI tools such as ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot evaluate the veracity of political information? A comparative analysis in this pre-print by Elizaveta Kuznetsova, Mykola Makhortykh, Victoria Vziatysheva, Martha Stolze, @aniBaghumian & Aleksandra Urman. arxiv.org/abs/2312.13096

Preprint alert🚨We compare veracity, mis/disinfo and conspiracy identification on ChatGPT & Microsoft Copilot. ChatGPT performs better. Both perform worse in low-resource languages (🇺🇦). Mykola Makhortykh Victoria Vziatysheva Martha Stolze @aniBaghumian Aleksandra Urman arxiv.org/abs/2312.13096

How much Russian propaganda on search engines? M. Makhortykh, M. Sydorova Aleksandra Urman Ilaria Vitulano Martha Stolze and I study how Google, Bing, Yandex deal with disinfo on US biolabs in🇺🇦. Google is best at filtering misinfo out but not in Russian. More: arxiv.org/abs/2401.13832

The film Navalny made about Putin's palace, a $1.3 billion dictators fantasy, with hockey rink, oyster farm, and hookah bar: youtu.be/mMxqTae75Fs?fe…

What the hell's going on in the world? Are w in an Age of Revolutions, Stongmen, Unpeace, AI or Pre-War? Or just the Age of Hype? My latest commentary… theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

🗓️ In our next Weizenbaum Forum on 14 May we will talk about "Gendered War Narratives: Ukrainian #Digital #Diplomacy vs. Russian #Propaganda". Learn more and register here 👉 weizenbaum-institut.de/veranstaltunge…

📢 Exciting topic at the Weizenbaum Forum next week: We will be discussing Russian gender-specific #propaganda and #disinformation during the war in #Ukraine. 🗓️ 14 May, 18:00-19:30 ✅ Register now and join the discussion 👉 weizenbaum-institut.de/veranstaltunge…

Our guests (f.l.t.r.): Alexandra Pavliuc, Oberstleutnant i.G. Aldo Kleemann, Josephine Ballon und Valentyna Shapovalova

Our guests: (f.l.t.r.): Alexandra Pavliuc, Oberstleutnant i.G. Aldo Kleemann, Josephine Ballon und Valentyna Shapovalova

Für mich die zwei interessantesten Grafiken des Abends:

Erklärungsansätze, die ich heute Abend aus der #AfD zur Stärke bei Jungwählern gehört habe #Europawahl 1/x

Thailand has just become the first Southeast Asian country to legalise same-sex marriage 🚨 abc.net.au/news/2024-06-1…

Contributions from Claudia Zilla, Pauline Marie Reineke, Sabine Fischer, Huercan Asli Aksoy, Muriel Asseburg, Azadeh Zamirirad, Bettina Rudloff, Peter-Tobias Stoll, Martha Stolze, Nadine Knapp, Anne Koch, Nadine Biehler, Amrei Meier, Gerrit Kurtz and Judith Vorrath. /2

🎊 Excited for the chance to give an interview for Deutsche Welle and to comment on the recent #disinformation allegations and #Russian interference into the US elections, including a take on #Putin's comment to support #Harris🧐Elizaveta Kuznetsova Weizenbaum-Institut t.ly/3sdG6