Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
Marc Owen Jones
My article 'Evidencing alethocide: Israel’s war on truth in Gaza' in Third World Quarterly is currently free to access, download it while you can! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #GazaGenocide
My article 'Evidencing alethocide: Israel’s war on truth in Gaza' in Third World Quarterly is currently free to access, download it while you can! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #GazaGenocide
“these networks increasingly function as parallel media infrastructures. They do not simply spread isolated pieces of false information. They sustain broader political narratives”
"The fairly obvious comparison is that ...AI is slowly supplanting our ability to think independently and critically, in many cases feeding us dopamine as we celebrate the technologies that may be responsible for the decline of our ability to act independently" www.gulf-times.com/article/7267...
Very good thread on bot net influence operation over on #Xitter
Influence operations should not be allowed.
#ShutXitterDown
My latest column in the Gulf Times.
"Inside one of Middle East's longest-running influence operations"
www.gulf-times.com/article/7262...
This paper examines Israel’s systematic deployment of disinformation during its war on Gaza since October 2023, introducing the concept of ‘alethocide’ – the systemic destruction of truth. Using a ...
This paper examines Israel’s systematic deployment of disinformation during its war on Gaza since October 2023, introducing the concept of ‘alethocide’ – the systemic destruction of truth. Using a ...
In Abu Dhabi, crews are pouring concrete for a five-gigawatt AI campus, the largest outside the United States. Saudi Arabia’s national champion, HUMAIN, is...
Focusing on Sudan’s civil war, it shows how coordinated bot and sockpuppet networks were used to amplify RSF-aligned narratives, manipulate visibility, whitewash atrocities, and exploit weak moderation in non-English contexts.
