> Similar to how I like to look at scam/phishing emails to see how they work, I'm interested in seeing how sophisticated these are/are not.

https://edmo.eu/publications/ai-political-influencers-the-ne...

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stinkbeetle an hour ago | parent [-]

Are there any links to any of these Russian doppelganger propaganda sites? That seemed to just be a story about "influencers" and their AI slop.

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mikeyouse 26 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

They were largely taken down after Biden-admin actions in 2024 -- a contemporaneous story about some:

https://dfrlab.org/2024/09/18/doppelganger-us-election/

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jruohonen an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

It is the world wide web so yes there should be plenty of links to those, but I do not have them.

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Brendinooo an hour ago | parent [-]

I did do some searching and any link I found was already dead (hence me asking here!), so it's not really helpful to say "there should be plenty of links".

	▲	reddozen 10 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Disinformation moved from page rank to the "feed" in 2018 when Douyin bought (read: acquired copyright they originally stole) Musically and rebranded to TikTok. Why does no one remember any of this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_news_websites_in_the_Unit...
	▲	petre 23 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		They set up new ones, don't worry. And the propaganda is largely on brain rotting social media like tiktok and twitterx.