Johanna Vehkoo
Journo, non-fiction author, fact-checking & verification enthusiast, expert in online fakery. Speaker & trainer. Formerly: founder & editor of Long Play, fellow at RISJ & Wilson Center, professor of practice in journalism at Tampere Uni.
- Ah well that's alright then
- OpenAI no longer sees mass manipulation and #Misinformation as a critical risk and will address these risks through the terms of its service.
- Lupaus: Aivo FM, tarjoaa itsenäisiä uutisia. Uutispainotteisuus erottaa kanavan kilpailijoista. Todellisuus: Pop FM, tarjoaa hyvän mielen musiikkia. www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/ar...
- Reposted by Johanna Vehkooperfectly captures my feelings on the AGI breathlessness. the burden of proof is on these companies to show that there’s something beyond trend lines on a graph. what i’m more interested in is how this stuff is being used now (there already seems to be a lot of negative externalities)
- Reposted by Johanna VehkooRenee DiResta explains how Musk and his fans exploit social media dynamics to sow and breed conspiracy theories, and (with Musk as special government representative) are now using those conspiracy theories to dismantle the US government, one agency after another.
- Jos sulla on vielä juttuni Internet Archivesta lukematta, nythän on juuri sopiva hetki! Tämä koskee meitä kaikkia www.longplay.fi/kulttuuri/in...
- Who could've seen this coming...
- The launch of Google’s AI-powered search summaries has led to a 19% drop in click-through to academic reference services according to OUP product strategy director John Campbell: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ai-sear...
- Reposted by Johanna Vehkoowhat is a non-woke musical. bsky.app/profile/link...
- Reposted by Johanna Vehkoothis is going to be a disaster www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- Worthwhile reading on the rise of the tech oligarchy www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...
- Erinomainen kolumni. "Tavoiteajassa valmistuvasta maisterista yliopisto saa lähes kaksi kertaa niin paljon valtion rahaa kuin sellaisesta, joka valmistuu kolmessa vuodessa. Järjestelmä voi johtaa hassuihin priorisointeihin."
- Reposted by Johanna VehkooThe UN’s World Meteorological Organization announced today that 2024 was the hottest on record and that over the year we faced 151 unprecedented extreme weather events across the globe. We recently shared a guide into visualizing climate data to help clarify the impact of future climate hazards.
- Climate change is creating the perfect storm, with conflict and displacement issues increasingly intersecting with natural disasters. In this guide, Cornelia Scholz explains how to transform raw data into visualisations, revealing the impact of climate hazards. www.bellingcat.com/resources/ho...
- Reposted by Johanna VehkooVisual Origins Detector by Henk Van Ess Tool to quickly check the first mentions of an image in Google Lens and Google Fact Check Explorer + Exif viewer. visualorigins.digitaldigging.org #osint #socmint
- Kirjoitin jutun Internet Archivesta, joka on tallentanut internetiä jälkipolville 29 vuoden ajan. Se on ollut valmiina taistelemaan myös Trumpin hallinnon sensurointioperaatioita vastaan. Nyt tämä korvaamaton kirjasto on vaarassa. Lue, ei maksumuuria! www.longplay.fi/kulttuuri/in...
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- This is getting personal... On Trump's latest list of entities to dismantle: The Wilson Center, where I spent half of the year 2015. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/u...
- Reposted by Johanna Vehkoo🧵 This is a perfect example of what I've be describing as disordered discourse, and it's threat to democracy. Politicians are afraid to speak openly about key issues. Why? Because disordered discourse has captured the system itself—forcing obedience, punishing dissent, and making truth irrelevant.
- The language the official White House webpage uses these days: "The Fake News losers at CNN". Are there actual grownups working there
- Monetisation of misinformation is making a comeback on Facebook, reports @craigsilverman.bsky.social
- Reposted by Johanna VehkooKetju Apuna ry:stä ja Enkeli-Elisasta. Olen ollut jäsenenä Apuna-yhteisössä melkein alusta asti. Syitä kiinnostukseeni on kaksi. 1: Suoran auttamisen kanavat ovat tärkeitä, kun hyvinvointivaltion rakenteita puretaan. Ihmisten tulee olla apuna toisen akuutissa hädässä, myös vieraille ihmisille. ⬇️
- We're at a point where this seems only logical
- This morning's WTF news - Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have left Romania for the US - reports news.sky.com/story/andrew...
- So explain the Bezos logic to me. Why buy a newspaper for its prestige and then set out to destroy that prestige? Very sad to see the demise of a fine institution.
- Cheers from Kirkenes! Today I paid a visit to @thebarentsobserver.com - a true beacon of light for press freedom, employing Russian journalists in exile. Support this journalist-owned independent outlet if you can.
- Reposted by Johanna VehkooRemember a fake video in October that showed a fake poll worker destroying pro-Trump election ballots in Pennsylvania? There's now a copycat fake video with the same script about the German election, showing a fake poll worker destroying election ballots for the AfD in Hamburg.
- What a time to be alive & specialised in disinformation. I mean, when I got into this back in 2011, I never predicted this. The U.S. claims Ukraine started the war. They have an anti-vaxxer in charge of Americans' health. The world's richest man controls a platform for spreading disinfo...
- "Musk’s massive online following, his ownership of a social media platform where he can dictate content moderation rules, and his position heading a government entity with access to private data, give him a unique ability to threaten those who question him and chill dissenting speech."
- I also see many American friends tune out, or at least stay silent. And I understand them. But here's a very strong argument for staying aware and doing what you can.
- Reposted by Johanna VehkooNEW from me: I found that deepfake videos of Elon Musk and Donald Trump sharing inane (and sometimes misogynistic) self-help advice got an astonishing 706,592,689 views on TikTok. AI gunk is flooding our information ecosystem at a scale that should make us pause. fakedup.org/musk-trump-m...
- So even historical facts are now being censored in the U.S. There are many more examples of this. www.space.com/the-universe...
- Reposted by Johanna VehkooWikipedia is rolling out anonymity features piloted in countries with authoritarian governments in the US & is making a change to not show editor IP addresses in response to a global "increase in threats" from Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation, and governments www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...
- Reposted by Johanna VehkooI appreciate this and would love you all to follow my American Crisis substack which I’ve made free. Because … well, I think you know why. Newest one: open.substack.com/pub/margaretsulliva…
- If you care about the state of the media as it sets about covering Trump 2.0 and you're *not* reading Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social's Substack, ask yourself why you're not. Scratch that, just sign up.
- I recommend this great online course on LLMs by @jevinwest.bsky.social & @carlbergstrom.com, known for their course & book Calling Bullshit. "The purpose of this course is to explore how a system that is fundamentally a bullshit machine can appear to be a powerful oracle." thebullshitmachines.com
- "Among other worrying measures, his administration has taken government webpages offline, deleting vital data that was previously available to the public, and restricted journalists’ access to the White House and Pentagon." rsf.org/en/usa-trump...
- Hanna @hannanik.bsky.social kirjoittaa aiheesta, jota olen aika obsessiivisesti seurannut koko viikon: miten journalistiset mediat käsittelevät Muskin vallankaappausta. Jos luet yhden artikkelin tänään, toivottavasti se on tämä. mailchi.mp/longplay.fi/...
- Reposted by Johanna VehkooI'm hearing a lot from the media NGO sector about the impact of USAID cuts. A lot of small investigative media organisations across the globe are facing imminent closure as the funding they've budget for has vanished overnight, and the funder community has no capacity to absorb the shock.
- Here's @karenhao.bsky.social bringing some much-needed clarity to reporting on AI & the companies that develop it. Also: I see journos use GenAI for search all the time – please don't do that. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/what-de...
- This thread is worth reading
- Nyt näitä alkaa vihdoin tulla suomeksikin. Hyvä koonti STT:lta.
- Moikka! Tässä STT:n juttu aiheesta. Löytyy eri asiakkailtamme. www.ess.fi/uutissuomala...
- Been there, done this, can thoroughly recommend. // Media-alan paras pätkäduuni jälleen auki. tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
- Reposted by Johanna VehkooTreasuryn kaappaus on valtava uutinen, ja jää edelleen suomalaisessa uutisoinnissa tullien katveeseen. Päivi Heikkinen on Suomen Pankin maksujärjestelmäosaston päällikkö.
- Olen jo päivien ajan ihmetellyt, miten Muskin huseeraaminen Yhdysvaltain hallinnossa ei ylitä uutiskynnystä Suomessa. Täällä puhutaan vain tulleista. Nyt Kauppalehti on herännyt: www.kauppalehti.fi/uutiset/huom...
- Kansanedustajien jos kenen soisi olevan erityisen hyvin perillä uutisista, mutta:
- Reposted by Johanna Vehkoo"Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup." nymag.com/intelligence...
- Reposted by Johanna VehkooPublisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement? Me: Definitely. How specific can we get? Publisher: As specific as you like.
- Reposted by Johanna VehkooWe all know Meta's moderation cutbacks are going to cause real-world harm. Here's how 👇 #Misinformation
- Reposted by Johanna VehkooMany details on how and why Zuckerberg made this week's changes in this piece by @mikeisaac.bsky.social @kateconger.com @sheeraf.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/t...
- Wrote about the Meta fact-checking announcement - in Finnish: journalisti.fi/nakokulmat/2...
- Meta never cared about eradicating disinformation, the fact-checking programme was simply the right political move at that time, and ending it is the right move now. So it goes.
- Reposted by Johanna VehkooQ: Do you think Zuckerberg is responding to the threats you've made to him in the past? TRUMP: Probably. Yeah. Probably.
- Reposted by Johanna VehkooSo many journalists, researchers and fact-check organizations spent years lending time and legitimacy to Facebook. And this is how it ends.
- Watch Mark Zuckerberg suck up to Trump and call fact-checkers biased: www.instagram.com/reel/DEhf2uT...
- Reposted by Johanna VehkooLooking back at the "tradwife" and related trends in 2024, like the "I can't pay my mortgage" TikToks. What's remarkable is how fake it all is. In reality, women are more independent than ever. It's propaganda more than a trend. www.salon.com/2024/12/19/t...
- Tein tällaisen pienen helpohkon testin: tunnistatko erilaiset feikkisisällöt verkossa? yle.fi/a/74-20129092
- Reposted by Johanna VehkooI wrote a very timely introduction to digital security for journalists for @gijn.org, this guidance may also apply to activists, lawyers, and anyone else doing at-risk work these days. gijn.org/resource/int...
- Reposted by Johanna Vehkoo"Research shows six in 10 social media content creators do not verify accuracy of information before posting it" www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n... #MisinfoResearch
