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Welcome to program 396 of Shortwave Radiogram.

I'm Kim Andrew Elliott in Arlington, Virginia USA.

Here is the lineup for today's program, in MFSK modes as noted:

  1:44 MFSK32: Program preview (now)
  2:56 MFSK32: Russian propaganda outlet leverages AI
  6:07 MFSK64: EU Lawmakers Debate Support For RFE/RL*
10:33 MFSK64: This week's images*
28:27 MFSK32: Closing announcements

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From Phys.org:

Propaganda outlet leverages AI to amplify content without any
loss in persuasive power

by PNAS Nexus
April 1, 2025

A study of the use of AI by a Russian-backed propaganda outlet
shows how AI allows propagandists to increase their production
capacity without any loss in persuasive power. In December 2023,
journalists at the BBC and Clemson University's Media Forensics
Hub published an investigation revealing that the site
DCWeekly.org was a Russian propaganda outlet, part of a broader
network disseminating pro-Kremlin and anti-Ukrainian narratives.

Morgan Wack and colleagues found that prior to September 20,
2023, much of the content on the site was simply lifted from
other right-leaning outlets. After that date, however, the
stories were generally rewritten by AI, allowing the site to use
a broader range of sources but with the tone and emphasis tweaked
to better suit likely aims of the propagandists.

Published in PNAS Nexus, the authors examined 22,889 articles
published on the site before and after the shift—but before the
site's true motives were exposed. By leveraging the timing of its
adoption, the research team shows how AI allowed the
propagandists behind the site to more than double their rate of
publication, as compared to their most active pre-AI period. The
use of AI by DCWeekly also corresponded with an increase in the
breadth of topics covered on the site, which ranged from Russia's
purported successes in Ukraine to the tyranny of gun control
legislation in the United States.

As a final step, the authors conducted a survey of 880 American
adults recruited through the online survey platform Prolific and
found that the content in the post-adoption period maintained the
same level of persuasiveness as the pre-AI period. According to
the authors, immediate action should be taken to mitigate the
influence of AI-assisted propaganda campaigns.

https://phys.org/news/2025-04-propaganda-outlet-leverages-ai-amplify.html
 

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From RFE/RL:

EU Lawmakers Debate Support For RFE/RL Amid US Funding Freeze

By Rikard Jozwiak
April 01, 2025

European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos has emphasized
the “need to protect Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL),”
warning that "if we don’t, we hand a gift to autocrats the world
over."

Her remarks came during a debate in the European Parliament
plenary in Strasbourg on April 1 that focused on safeguarding
access to democratic media, including RFE/RL.

The debate was initiated in response to an executive order signed
by US President Donald Trump on March 14, which reduced the size
of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the body overseeing
RFE/RL.

Shortly afterward, Kari Lake, a senior adviser to the USAGM CEO,
issued a letter stating that the Congress-approved grant funding
the broadcaster had been terminated.

While the grant termination has since been rescinded, the USAGM
has not sent any of the congressionally appropriated funds,
prompting RFE/RL to furlough some of its staff on April 1.

Kos, speaking on behalf of the EU foreign policy chief Kaja
Kallas, said that “the European Union needs to be a refuge for
independent media, including from Russia and Belarus, so they can
continue their work; holding their political and business elites
to account and exposing corruption.”

While the commissioner refrained from speaking about the
potential of the EU stepping in to fund the media organization,
several members of the European Parliament did mention the idea.
Stormy Discussion

Sebastiao Bugalho, a Portuguese member of the largest group in
the chamber, the center-right European People’s Party, said that
“we will pay the price and shoulder the burden.”

Lithuanian lawmaker Virginijus Sinkevicius from the Greens
underlined that “we must ensure that RFE/RL has access to
long-term and stable funding, including from the EU.”

Alexandr Vondra, who was a prominent dissident in communist
Czechoslovakia and is now a Czech MEP from the right-wing
European Conservatives and Reformists, said that the radio helped
spread information in repressive countries such as Iran, Belarus,
and Russia, and called on the European Union to contribute to the
station’s finding.

“Let us be open to finance [RFE/RL] also from EU money and find
agreement on what form,” he said.

The one-hour debate became rather stormy at times with lawmakers
shouting at each other in between speeches.

Several members from populist groups in the Strasbourg chamber
spoke against potentially using EU money to finance the
broadcaster.

Mary Khan, an MEP from the far-right Alternative for Germany
party, said that RFE/RL “can finance itself” and added that
“media should not be financed by European institutions.”

Slovak MEP Milan Uhrik, who belongs to the same Europe of
Sovereign Nations Group as Khan, said that the EU should instead
help farmers in Slovakia battling foot-and-mouth disease among
its cattle, adding that “your independent media is the absolute
opposite of independent media.”

Julien Sanchez, a French parliamentarian belonging to the
Patriots for Europe, another populist right-wing fraction, said
that the chamber was “hypocritical” in talking about this
situation and “interfering with the situation in the United
States.”

The debate will have no resolution to be voted on during this
plenary session, which ends on April 3, but this could come at a
later stage as several European parliamentary officials told
RFE/RL that the house will continue to monitor the situation.

https://www.rferl.org/a/rferl-funding-eu-parliament-debate-trump-grant-cuts/33367900.html


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Two men push a pallet of goods over tram tracks in Hong Kong.
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A worker adjusts colorful lanterns during preparations for
Buddha’s birthday celebrations on 5 May at Jogye temple, Seoul.
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The opening of the cheese market season in Alkmaar, the
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The cherry blossoms in Washington DC were at peak until a storm
on March 31 blew many of them off the trees. tinyurl.com/2ao9vrfb
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Tulips at the Netherlands Carillon in Arlington Virginia, looking
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Loch Knapps, Scotland, shortly before sunset.
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From the Atlantic coast of Canada, through the clouds, the
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An Allen's hummingbird at Santa Cruz Arboretum, Santa Cruz,
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The first spring blooms at Indiana Dunes State Park.
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Our painting of the week is "Garden on the Roof" (2022) by Jean
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