Maria Giovanna Sessa
Research Manager @disinfo.eu • GBD, FIMI & DSA are some of my favorite acronyms • Based in Milan, but traveling often 🛸✨
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- Oggi qui per parlare della Milano del presente e del futuro #glistatigenerali
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- Excited to be in Ljubljana today and tomorrow for #Disinfo2025 @disinfo.eu 🇸🇮💡🙋🏻♀️
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- Happy to be at the CFI Dialogues 2025 @eui-eu.bsky.social, discussing how to detect and expose #FIMI and build the EU’s capability and active #defense 🛡️🇪🇺✊
- 🚩 From Code of Practice to Code of (Mis)conduct? “Between 2022 and 2025, platforms reduced the number of measures committed to in the #CoP by 31%.” The most affected areas are #factchecking, political #ads & measures to empower the #research community
- 💬✍️ Viral videos on #TikTok falsely claim that 80% of luxury brands produce in 🇨🇳 urging users to buy directly from them. 👜💸 This seems a coordinated response to US tariffs and a way to relaunch China as a quality manufacturer
- ✍️💬 In the era of #genAI, seeing is NOT believing anymore: between perception hacking & the liar’s dividend, AI-fueled #disinformation undermines our relationship with reality
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- ✍️💬 #Climatechange #disinformation targeting the #GermanElections between denialism and delayism 🗳️⛈️
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- ✍️💬 #Doppelganger actors continue to monetize via Meta ads @aiforensics.org @reset.tech @checkfirst.network estimated almost half a million dollars in revenue in 2 years despite sanctions! 💵
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- Reposted by Maria Giovanna SessaI've got to say, the guy who accidentally became the Director of the FBI does 100% look like the guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI in a mid-2000s comedy about a guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI
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- ✍️💬 Less than a month after the launch of #DeepSeek, doubts arise about declared costs, #AI training methods, data privacy, and #disinformation 🐋
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- Reposted by Maria Giovanna SessaIt’s official: Elon Musk’s staffers have now illegally obtained classified information from the USAID office. Here’s a recap of what’s happening:
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- ✍️💬 Somebody once told me: “Fascism is back, but it’s #technofascism, so let’s dance”
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- ✍️💬 A few considerations on the (brief) #TikTok ban 🇺🇸 👮♀️ Forbidding an app does nothing for #nationaldefense 👷 Especially in lack of a #dataprotection law and sound #contentmoderation policies 🦸♂️ But what a success for #Trump to be the president who saved the clock app
- Alternative facts thriving
- According to WEF’s “Global Risks Report 2025”, top risks for this year are: 1. 🔫 Armed conflicts 2. 🌡️ Extreme weather events 3. ⚠️ Mis- and disinformation 4. 🪙 Geoconomic tensions 5. ➗ Social polarisation
- As @bsky.app grows, will it be able to address and counter #disinformation operations efficiently? 🤞🦋
- ✍️💬 About #GBD (gender-based #disinformation) attacks against journalist #CeciliaSala, who was arrested in #Iran 🚺🇮🇹
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- ✍️💬 La settimana inizia con una riflessione sui siti #proxy usati dalla #Russia per raggirare le #sanzioni #UE e continuare a diffondere #propaganda e #disinformazione
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- It’s such a relief to learn that Italian journalist #CeciliaSala has been freed after 20 days in an Iranian jail without charges ⛓️💥 Now let’s shield her from any wave of #gender based #disinformation that might come her way 💪
- ✍️💬 Il mio buon proposito del 2025 è di scrivere di più in italiano. Inizio da una riflessione sullo stop di #Meta al #factchecking negli USA
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- Italian journalist #CeciliaSala was arrested in Tehran last week while on a journalistic visa and is being held in isolation in Evin prison — charges are still unknown. Talk about her! #FreeCecilia
- “AI-generated content can be used in dangerously aspirational ways, for example, to help #radicalize audiences by visualizing potential targets for destruction.”
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- Reposted by Maria Giovanna Sessa"More than two-thirds of 100 companies behind the AI tools most commonly used and recommended by journalists are insufficiently transparent about their ownership, finances and other critical data, according to a new report" reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/who-own...
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- 👉 #factchecking focuses on facts not opinions, voiding the arbiters of truth argument imo ☝️ but because of that, it has limited success when beliefs come into play 🙌 easier said than done, we need to clarify boundaries between what’s objectively knowable and subjectively perceived
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- Check out @gijn.org ’s list of top investigative journalism #tools for 2024 💻 🔍 Also, if you’re looking for the ultimate “all in one place” tool, the @vera-ai.bsky.social InVID-WeVerify verification plugin is always a good idea! 👾👩💻
- Reposted by Maria Giovanna SessaRomanian presidential election: It's not all about TikTok. We've uncovered over 4k political ads on Meta's platforms. They were run from 25 facebook pages tied to a network of websites pushing unverified claims in favour of the far-right. Read more: checkfirst.network/research-not...
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- #GBD gender-based disinformation exploits societal norms to harm #women 🚺 In countries like Pakistan, #deepfakes suggesting improper interactions with men can ruin women’s reputations and pose real safety threats ⚠️ Understanding context is crucial to fight #disinformation 🗺️
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- Reposted by Maria Giovanna SessaMisinformation? Disinformation? What's the difference? A very simple and festive explainer. 🎅 Credit: 🎨 @felixuncia.bsky.social 🧠 @brentlee.bsky.social
- This Afghan journalist is the real #femininomenon! 🦸♀️ Check out her articles on the closure of women-only restaurants (theafghantimes.com/taliban-forc...) and extreme period poverty/harmful taboos (theafghantimes.com/afghanistan-...) in #Afghanistan 🇦🇫 Please share more of her articles with me!
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- Our new response-impact framework combines IO countermeasures, focusing on: 🔎 Exposure 👥 Community engagement 🕸️ Infrastructure 💰 Sanctions & legal responses And their cost-effectiveness, including: ❗️Situational awareness 🩹 Impact on threat actors 💥 New responses ✋ Deterrence
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- Thanks for participating and ICYMI find the recording on the @disinfo.eu website and YT. Spoiler alert! 🚨🇹🇼 The #Taiwan power model for #FIMI resilience is: 🎯 [P]urpose-driven 🌳 [O]rganic ☂️ [W]hole-of-society ⏰ [E]volving 🔄 [R]emit-bound
- 🇷🇴 Preliminary #EDMO #BROD Report on Romanian Presidential #elections shows that candidates exploited #TikTok algorithms to bypass mainstream media and engage disenfranchised voters. TikTok’s quasi-ban on political #ads doesn’t stop campaigns but only obscures funding. WE 👏 NEED 👏 REGULATION
- 2.5 years into the #doppelganger operation, one of the most effective ways for #media outlets to defend against #impersonation by #disinformation networks that register lookalike domain names is through domain name dispute resolutions🕵️♀️🗞️ Here’s the ultimate @disinfo.eu step-by-step guide:
- Started the week with a vibrant consultation on #OECD #informationintegrity recommendations Shared ideas on: 🔗 Framework interoperability 📊 Granular data access 👩💻 Vetting non-academic researchers ⚖️ Platform accountability Have your say by Thursday!
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- In case you missed this, #Qurium uncovered how #Doppelganger ‘s disinfo domains share infrastructure with other scams and malware ops 🌐 It’s a global fraud ecosystem, including crypto and dating scams — fake news, fake gains, and now fake love 💔
- Wondering how defenders like their coffee? ☕️🛡️ (Let’s be honest I can’t resist a good gadget)
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- Just finished S2 of #BBC podcast “I’m Not a Monster”, uncovering former ISIS wife fundraising via #cryptocurrency, masked as charity. It reminded me of @aeowinpact.bsky.social’s talk at #Disinfo2024 on the “cyber caliphate”. Highly recommend the podcast & checking INPACT / All Eyes on Wagner!
- Last week I deleted my X account and I almost have more followers here already. What to do with this modest but unexpected popularity? Reminding you that last week I also presented a report on how to detect/analyse identity-based #disinformation fuelled #FIMI with simple #OSINT techniques 🏳️🌈🔎📒
