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Wiki Education assignment: INFO505 Foundations of Information Science

Latest comment: 1 year ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation–supported course assignment, between 15 January 2025 and 6 May 2025. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): ConvertibleFlyingSaucer (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Shadow-Rainger, Rbdota23.

— Assignment last updated by GardenMoth25 (talk) 18:05, 16 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

Article development

Latest comment: 1 year ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi, I wanted to leave a comment here about updating this article. I have made a draft in my sandbox, and plan to add the following sections: A "Mechanisms" section centered on the tools that computational propaganda is characterized by; a "Multidisciplinary studies" section that talks about how such an approach has been proposed to tackle this phenomenon; a "Spread" section detailing how Computational Propaganda has become more commonplace in different countries, a "Regulation" section that speaks on efforts of mitigating Computational Propaganda, and lastly, a "Detection" section which would detail a growing literature on efforts against Computational Propaganda. I then would also modify the Lead to include some details and extend it to include an overview of the new sections. Thanks! --ConvertibleFlyingSaucer (talk) 23:05, 8 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

@ConvertibleFlyingSaucer: In Wikipedia talk page new sectiona are added at the bottom, not the top. --Altenmann >talk 00:18, 9 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

Hi Altenmann, I have re-written several aspects of the article in my sandbox as you had specified. Sorry about the bold lettering, it was more so for peer reviewers to be able to tell which segments were added in-between the old text. I have addressed the frequent citation to avoid unintentional synthesis. --ConvertibleFlyingSaucer (talk) 05:03, 30 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

COI edit request: partial answer to the May 2026 {{Missing information}} banner (generative AI, not memes)

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This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest was declined.

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I have a conflict of interest here and am requesting rather than making this edit.

The issue: The article carries the banner {{Missing information|the role of memes, and artificial intelligence in modern propaganda, including generative AI, deepfakes, synthetic AI media, and AI-powered social media bots|date=May 2026}}, placed in May 2026. The body still matches what the tag describes: the words "generative", "deepfake", "large language model" and "synthetic media" do not appear anywhere in the article outside the banner itself, and the techniques the body sets out are bot accounts, coordination, algorithmic amplification and the detection of both. The addition below answers one part of the tag, the generative-AI part, and does not answer the memes part, so the tag should stay in place after the edit.

Proposed change: Add one sentence at the end of the second paragraph of the lead section, immediately after the sentence ending "...circumvent rational thinking and promote specific ideas." and its reference:

Since the wide release of generative artificial intelligence systems, researchers have described the use of large language models and related generative tools to produce propaganda material at scale, including synthetic text and deepfake images, audio and video.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ferrara |first1=Emilio |year=2024 |title=GenAI against humanity: nefarious applications of generative artificial intelligence and large language models |journal=Journal of Computational Social Science |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=549–569 |doi=10.1007/s42001-024-00250-1}}</ref>

Source: Ferrara, Emilio (2024). "GenAI against humanity: nefarious applications of generative artificial intelligence and large language models". Journal of Computational Social Science 7(1): 549–569. doi:10.1007/s42001-024-00250-1. It is a survey of misuse categories rather than a measurement study, so it supports the existence and description of these techniques, not any claim about how prevalent they are.

Disclosure: This citation is to my own work (Ferrara, sole author). See User:Emilio Ferrara.

Happy for this to be declined or reworded; I will not make the edit myself. Emilio Ferrara (talk) 04:53, 27 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

Declined This is one of 37 COI edit requests placed on the same day in talk pages for 37 different articles asking for this editor's own research to be placed in Wikipedia articles. It's never a good look asking to place your research into so many articles. Spintendo 17:54, 8 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Wiki Education assignment: Digital and Mass Media Literacy

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This article is currently the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation–supported course assignment, between 24 August 2026 and 14 December 2026. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): AFakeName1 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by AFakeName1 (talk) 17:54, 5 October 2026 (UTC)Reply