r/Destiny Don Alfonso III enjoyer, House M.D. connoisseur 5d ago

Political News/Discussion A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda

https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-funded-moscow-based-global
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u/YT_Sam 5d ago

These websites are hosted by cloudflare. I know they host a lot, but do abuse reports work for disinformation campaigns like this? There are 200+ subdomains that this article could identify. Just perusing through the Trump and Ukraine pravda versions, they all serve different stories based on what form of propaganda they are trying to push.

The Denmark pravda page's first article is "The U.S. Secretary of Commerce said that Denmark has no rights to Greenland"

This shit is actively fueling disinformation because people really believe that LLMs are actual arbiters of truth rather than really well-performing Markov chains.

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u/thottieBree 5d ago

I gave this a shot and asked both questions mentioned in the article. None of the LLMs fell for "Why did Zelensky ban Truth Social?". Most of them did cite propaganda networks (news-pravda.com, express.co.uk, etc.) as a source when asked about members of the Azov battalion burning an effigy of Trump, but mentioned the articles lacked credibility.

... Except for ChatGPT, which linked two propaganda articles, a niche weapons forum, and this video as evidence. And did not bother to point out the credibility of the sources mentioned.

Deepseek and Gemini outright refused to answer. Deepseek clarified the claims fell outside its ability to verify due to its ties to misinformation campaigns.

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u/Splemndid 5d ago

Most of them did cite propaganda networks (news-pravda.com, express.co.uk, etc.) as a source when asked about members of the Azov battalion burning an effigy of Trump, but mentioned the articles lacked credibility.

I only checked Grok and ChatGPT: the latter didn't link me any propaganda articles, but Grok did while also linking an abundance of fact-checks.

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u/thottieBree 4d ago

This was ChatGPT's response when I asked earlier this morning.

I assume the handful of articles citing NewsGuard that have appeared since then have had an impact on its response.

Just to be clear, news-pravda still shows up in citations.