A list of the most intriguing articles posted so far, AMAs, and Reddit-related content

I haven't decided if I might make this a wiki page or just keep it as a post but chances are folk won't go looking for the wiki even if it's on the sidebar, so it's a post for the foreseeable future. This post is a collection of (what I think are) the most novel submissions I've posted here, Reddit related news articles, and sub-appropriate/relevant IAMAs. WIP, will add more older ones as I take the time to dive through my archives.

Newest items will be at the top of each section. (Updated May 23 '21)

#Fascinating Content:

• The Slander Industry: Who Profits From Destroying Reputations Online?

• A growing problem of 'deepfake geography': How AI falsifies satellite images

• Laundering torturers' reputations with copyfraud

• MacKenzie Scott Gave Away Billions. The Scam Artists Followed.

• The hidden fingerprint inside your photos: They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Actually, there's a great deal more hidden inside the modern digital image.

• Dark patterns, the tricks websites use to make you say yes, explained - How design can manipulate and coerce you into doing what websites want.

• Bitflips when PCs try to reach windows.com: What could possibly go wrong?

• The real cost of smart speakers

• Our parents warned us the internet would break our brains. It broke theirs instead.

• Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You?

• Why Spotify Has So Many Bizarre, Generic Artists Like ‘White Noise Baby Sleep’ - The platform is filled with search-optimized spammers, and there’s no end in sight

• Who’s a Bot? Who’s Not? It sometimes seems that automated bots are taking over social media and driving human discourse. But some (real) researchers aren’t so sure.

• Sneaky Zero-Click Attacks Are a Hidden Menace

• How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually

• Daniel Yomtobian Built An Empire On Dubious Online Advertising Traffic. It Finally Crumbled.

• How to virtually block a road: Take a walk with 99 phones

• How bots are stealing artwork from artists on Twitter

• New study: The advertising industry is systematically breaking the law

• How Chumboxes Work - A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chum

• What are click farms? A shadowy internet industry is booming in China

• Why abandoned domain names are so dangerous

• Fawkes: Image "Cloaking" for Personal Privacy

• Magecart group uses homoglyph attacks to fool you into visiting malicious websites

• It has been 15 years, and we're still reporting homograph attacks – web domains that stealthily use non-Latin characters to appear legit

• Dropshipping journalism - No one working at Newsweek can tell me why it still exists

• You're very easy to track down, even when your data has been anonymized

• Facebook, Why the Fuck Do You Keep Putting These Spammy Fake News Sites at the Top of My Feed?

• Fake ‘Likes’ Remain Just a Few Dollars Away, Researchers Say

• 5-Minute Crafts is part of a massive Russian propaganda network, Bright Side, one of the largest digital media conglomerates online today.

#AMAs:

• IAMA Freelance Journalist Researching Social Media ID Verification Policies

• I’m Gianluca Stringhini, cybercrime researcher, meme expert, and computer scientist. Ask me anything about disinformation, misinformation, fake news, and how it goes viral on social media.

• Hi Reddit! I'm Milena Pribic, Advisory Designer for AI and the global design representative for AI Ethics at IBM. Ask me anything about scaling ethical AI practices at a huge company!

• I'm Danielle Citron, privacy law & civil rights expert focusing on deep fakes, disinformation, cyber stalking, sexual privacy, free speech, and automated systems. AMA about cyberspace abuses including hate crimes, revenge porn & more.

• I’m Nina Jankowicz, Disinformation Fellow at the Wilson Center and author of HOW TO LOSE THE INFORMATION WAR. I study how tech interacts with democracy -- often in undesirable ways. AMA!

• AMA with Sophie Zhang, Facebook whistleblower

• Hi, I'm Damaso Reyes, a journalist and media literacy expert. I'm here to answer your questions about "fake news," misinformation and how to stay informed while avoiding being fooled and manipulated by what you find on social media. AMA

#Reddit related content:

• [Effort Post] The future of viral ads - A band's multi-dimensional viral ad campaign using Deepfake face mapping, fake websites, social media blasts, and more

• Suspected Campaign from Russia on Reddit

• Coordinating a Multi-Platform Disinformation Campaign: a time series analysis shows that Russian agency posted and commented on Reddit before doing so on Twitter, which might indicate that Reddit was seen as a trial ballon space for disinformation strategies

• The Canadian government let Reddit off the hook on disinformation

• Reddit ran wild with Boston bombing conspiracy theories in 2013, and is now an epicenter for coronavirus misinformation. The site is doing almost nothing to change that.

• [Video] How Trolls on Reddit Try to Manipulate You (Disinformation & How We Beat It) - Smarter Every Day

• Researchers uncover six-year Russian misinformation campaign across Facebook and Reddit

• Russians Used Reddit and Tumblr to Troll the 2016 Election

• Reddit hit by data breach after hackers hijack SMS login system

• Meet three moderators fighting disinformation on Reddit’s largest coronavirus forum

• Can democracy work on the internet? Reddit tells a mixed story