RESEARCH
Media Coverage
External reporting
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Those Soldiers Flooding Your Feeds? They Might Not Be Real.
The New York Times reported on dotNex’s TikTok investigation into AI-generated soldier videos flooding social feeds. The article highlights how synthetic military personas exploited public support for U.S. troops, spreading persuasive content at scale and blurring the line between authentic testimony and coordinated disinformation.
NEWSGUARD
dotNex investigation featured in NewsGuard’s Foreign Influence Risk Briefing
dotNex’s investigation into AI-generated military personas on TikTok was featured in NewsGuard’s Foreign Influence Risk Briefing — a publication tracking active foreign influence threats for news and information consumers. The briefing highlighted dotNex’s findings on a coordinated network of fake U.S. soldier accounts operating during the Iran conflict.
STRAIGHT ARROW NEWS
Coverage of dotNex’s TikTok influence operation findings
dotNex uncovered a network of ~110 AI-generated military personas on TikTok accumulating 3.9M views — coordinated accounts posing as U.S. soldiers, with Chinese-language metadata embedded in the content. Straight Arrow News reported on the investigation and its findings.
CNN
CNN reference to dotNex’s CEO influence defense research
CNN cited dotNex CEO Luca Luceri’s work on AI-driven influence operations, including how foreign actors deploy synthetic personas and coordinated networks to manipulate public opinion on social media platforms.
FINANCIAL TIMES
Coverage of dotNex researchers’ investigation into the 2025 Canadian Election
dotNex researchers identified coordinated inauthentic activity targeting the 2025 Canadian federal election — networks of accounts amplifying partisan narratives across social media. The Financial Times covered the investigation and its implications for election integrity.
TIME
dotNex's CEO cited in TIME on Meta's fact-checking rollback
TIME magazine cited dotNex CEO Luca Luceri in its coverage of Meta's decision to replace professional fact-checkers with a Community Notes model on Facebook and Instagram — raising concerns that the change could accelerate the spread of misinformation at scale.
EUROPEAN COMMISSION — JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE
dotNex co-founder’s research cited in EC policy report on information warfare
dotNex co-founder Federico Cinus’s work on cross-platform coordinated inauthentic activity was cited in “Fractured Reality” — a policy report by the Joint Research Centre, the European Commission’s science and knowledge service, on how democracies can counter global information operations.