Overload 2: Main Draft Report

• Since September 2024, the authors have collected over 700 targeted emails alongside content disseminated via Telegram, X, Bluesky, and, most recently, TikTok. A core tactic of the operation remains the direct targeting of media, fact-checkers, and researchers to overload them with specific content to fact-check. The network creates falsified narratives through manipulated content, and now increasingly AI-generated materials, for the purpose of soliciting engagement with fact-checkers. Alas, some publishers continue to routinely debunk individual falsehoods related to the operation without framing them within the broader context of Operation Overload.

Tasks

• Apply to FCC – done
• MORE ride on Thursday!
• Suz at gallery – done
• Work on Interactions paper – progress!
• Got some good TE time