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Q&A with Bill Adair on "Beyond The Big Lie"

Bill would like to apologize to C-SPAN caller Brian from Michigan, thinks Meta avoids fact-checking politicians out of self-interest, and is still disappointed in his former neighbor Mike Pence.

California's law mandating disclosure of election deepfakes was struck down

Plus: Russian hackers targeted users of AI nudifiers, and Meta AI is probably not good enough to be dangerous

Tools and tips round up: Finding deleted tweets and new tools from Bellingcat

Plus: upcoming free and paid workshops.

Researchers say CAPTCHAs are doomed, Thousands of US schools are likely affected by deepfake nudes, and AI slop pivots to Hurricane Helene

Bombay High Court strikes down India's government fact-checking, Pixel's "Reimagine" lights the UN on fire, and X's NCII takedown requests get audited

Americans turn to Search for debate fact-checking, Meta buries its AI labels, and Australia tries to regulate misinformation (again).

Brazil's disinformation takedowns lack transparency

Plus: RT covertly paid right-wing influencers $400K/month, and Meta ran hundreds more ads for deepfake nudifiers

A look at the Information Laundromat website analysis tool

The Alliance For Securing Democracy created a free OSINT tool to examine the content and metadata of websites

TikTok's AI is summarizing conspiracy theories, Meta ran 222 ads for deepfake nudes, and Telegram apologizes to South Korea