These LLMs are the best at resisting Russian propaganda

AI Large Language Model Training: The Potential Risks of Ideological Skewing — PSG Consulting

LLMs (AI Large Language Models) have become part of everyday life. Systems such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Meta AI (Llama) and X.ai's Grok handle billions of interactions daily. They increasingly shape what information people encounter and in what order, subtly deciding what's important and even what is true, sometimes without users realizing it. Because LLMs wield growing power over information exposure, it is vital to recognize the political and ideological structures at multiple stages of their design, and to identify manipulation risks. 

Russian disinformation campaign sets sights on US midterms

A Russian disinformation operation has turned its attention to the US midterm elections, unleashing a series of deepfake videos that depict celebrities attacking Democrats, researchers said, with more…

Poisoning for propaganda: rising authoritarianism makes LLMs more dangerous

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

Russian Bots Manipulate View Counts on Fake Videos Ahead of US Midterms

State-backed Matryoshka campaign targeting Democrats inflates view counts of fabricated stories, creating illusion of popularity.

EKI and Propastop Studied AI Resistance to Propaganda

Fresh comparisons of large language models show that AI’s ability to recognise Kremlin propaganda varies dramatically. At first glance, the leading models appear reliable, but targeted testing reveals that some of them remain surprisingly vulnerable to manipulation.

ImportAI 449: LLMs training other LLMs; 72B distributed training run; computer vision is harder than generative text

Will AI cause a political interregnum

Have we been measuring AI political bias wrong? A better approach is possible.

Why ideological preferences and epistemic failure in LLMs are not the same thing — and why the difference matters

Replication Data for "State Media Control Influences Large Language Models"

Replication dataset for "State Media Control Influences Large Language Models," forthcoming in Nature (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10506-7). We show through six studies that government control of the media across the world influences the output of large language models (LLMs) via their training data.

Replication Data for "State Media Control Influences Large Language Models"

Replication dataset for "State Media Control Influences Large Language Models," forthcoming in Nature (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10506-7). We show through six studies that government control of the media across the world influences the output of large language models (LLMs) via their training data.

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

An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time

Illusions of Understanding from Outsourcing Thinking to LLMs

Some illusions of understanding are an inevitable part of the research process, while others can be avoided or overcome by careful critical thinking and observation. We are facing an increased risk of avoidable illusions as more research activities are delegated to large language models (LMM). LLMs can be useful but they cannot think, and their use can undermine our thinking and understanding. Thinking for ourselves is hard and error prone but worthwhile - and there are no shortcuts to understanding.

The Pravda Network

DFRLab’s groundbreaking investigations, in collaboration with CheckFirst, uncover how the Russian Pravda network leverages cross-platform, multilingual influence operations and manipulates Wikipedia, large language models, and X to amplify pro-Kremlin narratives.

Pravda in the pipeline: Early evidence of state-adjacent propaganda in AI training data

An audit of Common Crawl reveals presence of Pravda and Glassbridge content in popular archive service, with further signs of LLM ingestion.

A Well-funded Moscow-based Global ‘News’ Network has Infected Western Artificial Intelligence Tools Worldwide with Russian Propaganda

A full version of this report is available through NewsGuard’s Reality Check.

ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok bypass EU restrictions on Russian state propaganda, RSF investigation finds

Most generative artificial intelligence chatbots give users access to content from Russian state media outlets sanctioned by the European Union, according to a…