David Goldstein
@davidkgoldstein.bsky.social
We Defend Truth co-founder, Chief of Strategy | Breaker of Disinfo | "We are like the memer who memes then lives within the meme"
https://www.wedefendtruth.org/our-fights
https://www.wedefendtruth.org/our-fights
What's noteworthy is that our systems and institutions haven't even caught up to thwarting 2016-level disinformation efforts but that hasn't stopped the baddies from innovating relentlessly.
New Russian propaganda network Pravda is manipulating AI chatbots to spread Kremlin disinformation. According to this report, just in 2024, the campaign flooded the web with 3.6 million fake articles to trick the top 10 AI models. #Misinformation
Russian propaganda web tricks 33% of AI responses in 49 states
The Kremlin's propaganda network flooded the web with 3.6 million fake articles in 2024 to deceive the top 10 AI models, a report reveals.
euromaidanpress.com
March 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
What's noteworthy is that our systems and institutions haven't even caught up to thwarting 2016-level disinformation efforts but that hasn't stopped the baddies from innovating relentlessly.
This is the pinnacle for disinfo. Deadly, powerful, entrenched with no obvious solution.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
…if your boss wanted a “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies"?
Dr. Peter Marks, the Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine regulator, has resigned.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
#medsky #idsky #healthpolicy
…if your boss wanted a “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies"?
Dr. Peter Marks, the Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine regulator, has resigned.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
#medsky #idsky #healthpolicy
FDA's top vaccine scientist is out, citing Kennedy's 'misinformation and lies'
In his resignation letter, Marks wrote that health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wanted "subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."
www.nbcnews.com
March 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
This is the pinnacle for disinfo. Deadly, powerful, entrenched with no obvious solution.
If it isn’t obvious by now, their arguments for everything they do are lies.
Russ Vought & Mark Paoletta claim presidents historically impounded funds, incl. Jefferson to build fewer gun boats. The truth: Jefferson relied on authority *Congress gave him* to spend less. Read for more about the history of impoundments: protectdemocracy.org/work/the-myt...
March 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
If it isn’t obvious by now, their arguments for everything they do are lies.
Their real issue with DEI has been its lack of grounding in good ol’ nepotism this whole time.
Why is Pete Hegseth bringing his wife to top security meetings and hiring his brother at the Pentagon? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pete Hegseth’s wife reportedly attended meetings with foreign defense officials
Defense secretary, already under fire for chat group blunder, faces new scrutiny for having wife in high-level meetings
www.theguardian.com
March 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Their real issue with DEI has been its lack of grounding in good ol’ nepotism this whole time.
This from @mcuban.bsky.social is savage yet true:
"I learned that the Democrats can’t sell worth shit. If you gave the Democrats a dollar bill and said, you can sell these for 50 cents, they would hire 50 people to decide how to do it and then would not know how to sell a dollar for 50 cents.”
"I learned that the Democrats can’t sell worth shit. If you gave the Democrats a dollar bill and said, you can sell these for 50 cents, they would hire 50 people to decide how to do it and then would not know how to sell a dollar for 50 cents.”
February 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This from @mcuban.bsky.social is savage yet true:
"I learned that the Democrats can’t sell worth shit. If you gave the Democrats a dollar bill and said, you can sell these for 50 cents, they would hire 50 people to decide how to do it and then would not know how to sell a dollar for 50 cents.”
"I learned that the Democrats can’t sell worth shit. If you gave the Democrats a dollar bill and said, you can sell these for 50 cents, they would hire 50 people to decide how to do it and then would not know how to sell a dollar for 50 cents.”
Andor is truly outstanding scifi. Using a pretend world to accurately describe our present reality and how we might fight our way out of it. Love every minute of it.
February 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Andor is truly outstanding scifi. Using a pretend world to accurately describe our present reality and how we might fight our way out of it. Love every minute of it.
I love this and of course @shayonislynn.bsky.social and @profsanderlinden.bsky.social are two of the greatest working in this space. What I worry about is while these tactics are proven (same with the work my team does) our shared #1 issue is chronic underfunding.
Can you protect yourself against #Misinformation? @profsanderlinden.bsky.social speaks to @thebulletin.org on how to incoluate yourself and others in the age of viral misinformation.
How to inoculate yourself (and others) against viral misinformation
Author Sander van Linden explains how to build immunity against misinformation, similar to vaccines that protect against pathogens.
thebulletin.org
February 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I love this and of course @shayonislynn.bsky.social and @profsanderlinden.bsky.social are two of the greatest working in this space. What I worry about is while these tactics are proven (same with the work my team does) our shared #1 issue is chronic underfunding.
In many ways, @marcelias.bsky.social is doing the scariest work right now in the public eye as it's through this stuff we find out how truly sick and dying the rule of law is for the country
🚨BREAKING: @democracyforward.org files emergency lawsuit to halt DOGE from taking taxpayer data at the IRS.
Visit Democracy Docket for full coverage.
www.democracydocket.com
Visit Democracy Docket for full coverage.
www.democracydocket.com
February 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
In many ways, @marcelias.bsky.social is doing the scariest work right now in the public eye as it's through this stuff we find out how truly sick and dying the rule of law is for the country
Great work from @davidpepperoh.bsky.social Coup as IT infrastructure grab: davidpepper.substack.com/p/a-digital-...
“A Digital Coup”: A Tech Expert Fills Me In on the DOGE Danger
Insider: “A truly unprecedented transfer of governmental power”
davidpepper.substack.com
February 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Great work from @davidpepperoh.bsky.social Coup as IT infrastructure grab: davidpepper.substack.com/p/a-digital-...
Not announced yet, but program to provide free at-home COVID tests is soon to shut down. Order while you can: covidtests.gov
ASPR COVID-19 Testing
NAVIGATION
covidtests.gov
February 15, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Not announced yet, but program to provide free at-home COVID tests is soon to shut down. Order while you can: covidtests.gov
Reposted by David Goldstein
Reposted by David Goldstein
Well done @davidgilbert.bsky.social fact checking Kash's lies #Misinformation
Kash Patel Says He Never Promoted QAnon. Here Are All The Times He Did
Kash Patel helped keep the QAnon movement alive on Truth Social, interacting with Q accounts, appearing on QAnon podcasts, and signing his children’s books with a QAnon catchphrase.
www.wired.com
February 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Well done @davidgilbert.bsky.social fact checking Kash's lies #Misinformation
If any of your work depends on data.gov there are reliable reports it’s being stripped of key datasets. Worth the risk to download what you need asap
Data.gov Home - Data.gov
data.gov
January 31, 2025 at 11:14 PM
If any of your work depends on data.gov there are reliable reports it’s being stripped of key datasets. Worth the risk to download what you need asap
Great work by @jagolinzer.bsky.social and @profsanderlinden.bsky.social but strongly advise separating #misinfo from #disinfo. The latter is deliberately trying to inflict harm, as Kirk/Owens intended. We can’t just fight back with facts, but need immediate, powerful narratives to bury these attacks
What do you know about "rage farming"? As @jagolinzer.bsky.social and @profsanderlinden.bsky.social explain, this dangerous trend exploits emotions to spread #Misinformation, often by influencers deliberately targeting corporations with disinformation.
How Companies Should Combat Rage Farming Attempts - ProMarket
Alan D. Jagolinzer and Sander van der Linden highlight a dangerous trend of influencers who deliberately target corporations with disinformation, called “rage farming.” The authors use United Airlines...
www.promarket.org
January 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Great work by @jagolinzer.bsky.social and @profsanderlinden.bsky.social but strongly advise separating #misinfo from #disinfo. The latter is deliberately trying to inflict harm, as Kirk/Owens intended. We can’t just fight back with facts, but need immediate, powerful narratives to bury these attacks
Use the president's #pardons to help people understand the fight is no longer right vs left and hasn't been for years. Conservatism has no space for pardoning your own violent political supporters. Only autocracy does.
Tell the stories of Jan.6 and ask where on the right those stories are OK.
Tell the stories of Jan.6 and ask where on the right those stories are OK.
January 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Use the president's #pardons to help people understand the fight is no longer right vs left and hasn't been for years. Conservatism has no space for pardoning your own violent political supporters. Only autocracy does.
Tell the stories of Jan.6 and ask where on the right those stories are OK.
Tell the stories of Jan.6 and ask where on the right those stories are OK.
Reposted by David Goldstein
This is fascinating
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
How Popular YouTubers Pushed Young Male Voters Toward Trump
How podcasters like Joe Rogan and Logan Paul turned young men, a once apolitical demographic, into a massively powerful voting bloc
www.bloomberg.com
January 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This is fascinating
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Good piece from @richardwike.bsky.social but misses 2 crucial parts of the problem - the unequal nature in which side of the political spectrum #democracy is being undermined from and how modern media tools are allowing anti-democratic actors to consistently win.
Those topics MUST be addressed.
Those topics MUST be addressed.
"[Citizens] still value representative democracy, but they also desire a new era of representation with significant changes to the relationship between leaders and the citizens they represent,” writes @richardwike.bsky.social.
"Why the World Is Down on Democracy":
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
"Why the World Is Down on Democracy":
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
January 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Good piece from @richardwike.bsky.social but misses 2 crucial parts of the problem - the unequal nature in which side of the political spectrum #democracy is being undermined from and how modern media tools are allowing anti-democratic actors to consistently win.
Those topics MUST be addressed.
Those topics MUST be addressed.
Truth to power - a great way to show the purveyors of #disinfo that temporary wins with lies still must face deeper, greater truths
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Truth to power - a great way to show the purveyors of #disinfo that temporary wins with lies still must face deeper, greater truths
Judd is one of the best and shows the tight link between #crypto and #disinfo - unless the former can find a way to disentangle from the latter, its reputation will always be subject to grifters and bad actors
Crypto exchanges under investigation by the SEC have spent days boosting Trump's meme coin, $TRUMP, helping Trump make billions
$TRUMP is designed to facilitate this kind of brazen corruption
$TRUMP is designed to facilitate this kind of brazen corruption
January 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Brutal but near perfect analysis of what we're up against. But this is a fight we can win.
January 5, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Brutal but near perfect analysis of what we're up against. But this is a fight we can win.