Patrick Warren retweeted
How can coordinated online networks distort democratic debate?
@euobs examines how coordinated inauthentic behaviour creates an illusion of political dominance, highlighting BFMI's research with Clemson University's Media Forensics Hub on pro-Vučić networks in Serbia.
Read more: euobserver.com/245695/what-i…
#MediaFreedom #Disinformation #Serbia
Patrick Warren retweeted
Flu shot season is here! Economist Devon Gorry is looking into how making the flu vaccine available during routine appointments helps more kids get protected. Her findings show that when it’s convenient, kids are more likely—by 23.4 percentage points—to get their flu shot.
ALT A person is receiving a vaccine injection in their arm from a healthcare worker, in a room with bright lighting. The person is wearing glasses and a purple shirt, looking at the healthcare worker with a smile. There is an exercise ball visible in the background.
Patrick Warren retweeted
“It’s the only class I took at Harvard where people would call each other out for not having done the reading.”
Harvard students are lining up to take Hum 10:
“Applications (essays required) shot up 40% this fall with 180 incoming freshmen vying for 90 spots.”
“The class is definitely not for padding the GPA. Students read a hefty book a week and write regular essays. There is no pass/fail option. Digital devices are verboten, and attendance is taken in every lecture (pink slips for those who arrive late).”
“In their applications and in interviews, students expressed the urge to be forced to tackle classics they otherwise wouldn’t read, the need to combat frayed attention spans and the desire for an antidote to The Machine. Several mentioned with disdain that people who aren’t in the class wondered why they didn’t ‘just Chat the books,’ i.e., use AI.”
Patrick Warren retweeted
🚨New tools and updates from OSoMe!
🤖 Botometer Blue + a new AI-content “slop score”
🕸️ OSoMeNet now supports Threads
📰 Redesigned Fakey
🧪 SimSoM NGen, our new open-source social media simulator
Explore the tools: osome.iu.edu/research/blog/n…
Patrick Warren retweeted
Why are fewer students majoring in humanities? Part of the reason is that the classes are too easy.
Harvard's Humanities 10 class is taking the opposite route. Professors are making the course difficult -- lots of reading, regular essays, and no digital devices in class.
The result? The course is very popular, and students need to complete a special application process just to take the class.
wsj.com/lifestyle/harvard-cl…
Patrick Warren retweeted
This is quite something ! Serbian RTV channel starts yesterday's bulletin by apologizing to viewers👇
"For years, we failed to fulfill our duty. We kept silent, turned a blind eye, reported events one-sidedly and failed to ask necessary questions. We owe our viewers an apology”
Patrick Warren retweeted
OSCE/ODIHR has published its preliminary findings on Serbia’s elections. Our research with Clemson University @ClemsonHub contributed evidence on coordinated online manipulation and attacks on independent media. #Serbia #Srbija
bit.ly/4yC94hL
Patrick Warren retweeted
New paper: "AI Article Reviews Dominate Human Peer Reviews at Their Best: Evidence and Policy Choices" See: GaryKing.org/peerless. with Steven Worthington. Comments welcome!
Patrick Warren retweeted
We contributed to the NYT story on Haley Stevens and an India-based content farm:
nytimes.com/2026/10/19/busin… | archive.ph/qRpHE
As it started gaining traction yesterday, here is some backstory.
Patrick Warren retweeted
Hundreds of fake accounts. Nearly 40,000 messages.
A new BFMI and @ClemsonHub investigation exposes a coordinated network amplifying Aleksandar Vučić and targeting independent media ahead of Serbia’s election.
Read our new report, “Double Attack”: bit.ly/double-attack
#MediaFreedom #Serbia #ElectionIntegrity
ALT Double Attack - How a Coordinated Network Promotes Aleksandar Vučić and Undermines Independent Media in Serbia’s 2026 Election Campaign
Excited to announce our second joint report with @BalkanFreeMedia. Here, revealing and analyzing a coordinated inauthentic network supporting the nationalist @sns_srbija in the upcoming election.
Patrick Warren retweeted
HAPPENING NOW in downtown Chicago, outside the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the historic center of onion futures trading
Patrick Warren retweeted
University of Chicago Students to Protest at Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Demand End to Federal Ban on Onion Futures
Student-led group For Our Futures will rally Monday morning to call for repeal of the 1958 Onion Futures Act
On Monday, October 19, at 8:30 a.m., members of For Our Futures, a student-led organization from @UChicago, will gather outside the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (@CMEGroup) headquarters to demand the repeal of the Onion Futures Act of 1958, a nearly 70-year-old federal law prohibiting futures trading in onions.
The Onion Futures Act, enacted following allegations of market manipulation in the 1950s, singled out onions for a prohibition on futures contracts that remains in effect today. For Our Futures is calling on Congress to repeal the ban and restore the ability of onion growers, buyers, and traders to participate in a regulated futures market. Onions remain the only commodity banned from futures trading in the United States.
The protest will feature a giant inflatable onion costume, protest signs, and dozens of students, and will take place outside the headquarters of CME Group, one of the world's largest derivatives marketplaces and the historic center of American onion futures trading.
DM for details
cc: @pointsnfigures1 @CharlesFLehman @matt_levine @nbcchicago @ABC7Chicago @cbsnewschicago @WGNNews @fox32news @WBEZ @Suntimes @BlockClubCHI @chalkbeatCHI @SeanCasten @mansourtarek_
ALT The "onion man" visits a meeting of the UChicago Democrats. Not affiliated with any party, candidate, or candidate committee. We are a bipartisan movement.
I'm glad there's not video of my first day in the classroom.
Patrick Warren retweeted
By popular demand:
A follow-up thread on Russian bots, Yandex, Cloudflare, MAGA, AfD and "breathing easier" on social media.
1️⃣ We see no "dramatic drop" in traffic of Kremlin-aligned human trolls-for-hire targeting Russian domestic users (which we have been tracking for years).
Patrick Warren retweeted
No, a Yandex cloud malfunction did not take down disinformation/troll bots. It's a dangerous misconception. This is not how it works, not even technically. After Ukrainian drones hit Yandex data centers, a viral chart showed Russian "bot traffic" collapsing. But those bots are mostly Yandex's own search crawlers, not the info-ops social media accounts. Troll farms hide behind proxies, hijacked devices and Western clouds. They're still operating. Hired influencers are also still around. The "bots went silent" story is misinformation. Believing it is plainly dangerous. It tells people the threat is gone while influence operations keep going. Ahead of elections that complacency is what they may count on.
