Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️ @anniaciezadlo.com · 2d

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Identifying and characterizing superspreaders of low-credibility content on Twitter

The world’s digital information ecosystem continues to struggle with the spread of misinformation. Prior work has suggested that users who consistently disseminate a disproportionate amount of low-cre...

journals.plos.org

Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️ @anniaciezadlo.com · 2d

tsjournal.org/index.php/jo...

View of Characteristics and Prevalence of Fake Social Media Profiles with AI-generated Faces | Journal of Online Trust and Safety

Journal of Online Trust and Safety

tsjournal.org

1

Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️ @anniaciezadlo.com · 2d

gijn.org/resource/inv...

Investigating Digital Threats: Trolling Campaigns

In order to identify, analyze, and expose trolls and trolling campaigns, we need to understand how trolling became a business model.

gijn.org

1 1

Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️ @anniaciezadlo.com · 2d

www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/ar...

Israeli tech sector's 'grey zone' provides agents for spreading disinformation

NEWS ANALYSIS. #StoryKillers. Several companies specializing in false information and influence, such as 'Team Jorge' and Percepto, were founded by former intelligence and military personnel.

www.lemonde.fr

1

Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️ @anniaciezadlo.com · 2d

arxiv.org/pdf/2411.03241

arxiv.org

1

Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️ @anniaciezadlo.com · 2d

theconversation.com/i-investigat...

I investigated millions of tweets from the Kremlin’s ‘troll factory’ and discovered classic propaganda techniques reimagined for the social media age

Tailored messaging, repeated exposure, and false grassroots campaigns are classic propaganda techniques, now used widely by state-back trolls.

theconversation.com

1

Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️ @anniaciezadlo.com · 2d

fakereporter.net/en/english/?...

Fakereporter

Connect Us Support us Everything you need to know about Fake Reporter FakeReporter – The Civil Center for Digital Protection is an NGO watchdog founded by researchers and activists.

fakereporter.net

1

Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️ @anniaciezadlo.com · 2d

www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/t...

Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War (Published 2024)

www.nytimes.com

1

Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️ @anniaciezadlo.com · 2d

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

AI-Generated Faces in the Real World: A Large-Scale Case Study of Twitter Profile Images | Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses

dl.acm.org

1

Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️ @anniaciezadlo.com · 2d

Nope. Here's a tiny fraction of the recent research on bots, troll farms, & professional outrage spinners. They haven't gone away just because liberals decided it's more fun to join in

openmeasures.io/american-eag...

Outrage Over American Eagle’s ‘Great Jeans’ Ad Was a Conservative Media Creation - Open Measures

Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.

openmeasures.io

1 3

Reposted by Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2d

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

34 860 2.4K

Reposted by Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

You can bribe the president with $2,000,000,000 but he'll apparently still do that dipshit Alpha Male move where he suddenly yanks your arm in a handshake.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Trump greets the delegate from UAE, which put $2 billion into Trump’s crypto company: “They got a lot of cash. Unlimited cash.”

70 240 1.1K

Reposted by Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️

Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 2d

Voters still trust Republicans on the economy more than Democrats. I guess waging the same tired old fights on ACA are not changing anyone's mind. Who could have predicted it??? .
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

10 12 80

Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️ @anniaciezadlo.com · 2d

“Without hunger and thirst among the Gazan population, we will not succeed in recruiting collaborators, we will not succeed in recruiting intelligence, [or]... in bribing people with food, drink, medicine, in order to obtain intelligence.”

—Tally Gotliv (Likud Knesset member)

19 34

Reposted by Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

43 3.4K 8.8K

Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️ @anniaciezadlo.com · 2d

and not a moment too soon!

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d

Some folks who preordered are starting to receive their copies of Read This When Things Fall Apart! ❤️

The book is supposed to be published on November 4, but I am so happy some folks are getting it early. It's needed now.

Nicoletta Penguin @nicoguin.bsky.social · 4d

My pre-ordered copy arrived today. Thank you for this gem of a book.

1 1

Reposted by Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d

Some folks who preordered are starting to receive their copies of Read This When Things Fall Apart! ❤️

The book is supposed to be published on November 4, but I am so happy some folks are getting it early. It's needed now.

Nicoletta Penguin @nicoguin.bsky.social · 4d

My pre-ordered copy arrived today. Thank you for this gem of a book.

The cover of pre-ordered and delivered before publication date Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis edited by Kelly Hayes.

7 34 210

Reposted by Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️

Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️ @anniaciezadlo.com · 4d

Does this remind you. of anything.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

1 3 8

Reposted by Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

230 4.4K 10K

Reposted by Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️

Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 4d

redo w/correct link. pls share again!

‼️‼️‼️Sameer Project urgently needs our action. Can we do a $75/mattress-for-babies fundraiser today?

The situation:

From Sameer Project on on X: “The pediatric department at Nasser Hospital requested our help!!
Support: chuffed.org/project/1368...

Screenshot of video of babies who arrived at Nasser Hospital in need of urgent care. Go to Sameer Project on c to view

3 45 35

Reposted by Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️

NPR @npr.org · 4d

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

n.pr

240 2.5K 9.2K

Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️ @anniaciezadlo.com · 4d

x.com/LAURA_N_ROD/...

Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️ @anniaciezadlo.com · 4d

Does this remind you. of anything.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

1 3 8

Reposted by Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 5d

As a federal immigration crackdown ramps up in the Chicago area, a few dozen people gathered on Thursday afternoon in downtown Aurora to protest immigration enforcement activity in the area.

Protestors gather outside Aurora City Hall Thursday to decry federal immigration crackdown

A few dozen people gathered on Thursday afternoon outside City Hall in downtown Aurora to protest federal immigration enforcement activity in the area.

trib.al

4 28 110

Reposted by Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 5d

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

trib.al

81 670 1.2K