Erielle Delzer

Erielle Delzer is a verification producer for CBS News Confirmed in New York. She covers misinformation, AI and social media with a focus on Russian digital influence campaigns. Her primary topics include election disinformation, AI risk intelligence, and social media misuse. Previously, she worked for Dataminr covering the Russia-Ukraine conflict and for Twitter's editorial team focusing on global news and misinformation. Delzer has also contributed to CBSN's coverage of Russian digital influence campaigns targeting the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

Biography:  https://www.cbsnews.com/team/erielle-delzer/

91%

The overall score is a weighted number that takes into account conflict of interest, bias, deception and other practices that undermines the credibility of the source. It is calculated as:
Analysis.OverallConflictOfInterestScore * 0.3F + Analysis.OverallBiasScore * 0.3F + Analysis.DeceptivenessScore * 0.3F + Analysis.ReadabilityScore * 0.1F

A score that takes into consideration the content for flow, interruptions with ads, and overt search engine optimization techniques that makes the content hard to understand

The Daily's Verdict

This author is known for its high journalistic standards. The author strives to maintain neutrality and transparency in its reporting, and avoids conflicts of interest. The author has a reputation for accuracy and rarely gets contradicted on major discrepancies in its reporting.

Bias

75%

Examples:

  • Election disinformation benefits "our adversaries,"
  • They will discredit institutions, undermine the legitimacy of the democratic process and attack moderate political candidates, both Democrat and Republican, in an attempt to drive further extremism.

Conflicts of Interest

100%

Examples:

No current examples available.

Contradictions

85%

Examples:

  • A growing Russian disinformation network, operating under the name ‘Pravda’ and masquerading as news websites, is targeting all 27 EU countries with its content ahead of the EU Parliament elections.
  • Professional media organizations tend to link news articles to the journalists who reported the information in the name of transparency. However, these fabricated articles do not; instead, they link to Telegram accounts such as Rybar.
  • Russian disinformation tactics have evolved to include narrative laundering, discrediting institutions, undermining the legitimacy of the democratic process, and attacking moderate political candidates.
  • Rybar, a pro-Russian Telegram channel founded by Russian military blogger Mikhail Zvinchuk, has grown to over 1.2 million subscribers.
  • The network’s use of artificial intelligence to produce high volumes of content provides insight into Russia’s disinformation tactics ahead of the U.S. presidential election.

Deceptions

100%

Examples:

No current examples available.

Recent Articles

Russia's Doppelgänger Network: Disinformation Campaign Targeting EU Parliament Elections Focuses on Renewable Energy and Undermining Western Narratives

Russia's Doppelgänger Network: Disinformation Campaign Targeting EU Parliament Elections Focuses on Renewable Energy and Undermining Western Narratives

Broke On: Tuesday, 04 June 2024 Russian disinformation network 'Doppelgänger' and 'Pravda' target EU Parliament elections with false narratives about renewable energy and anti-western sentiments, using clone sites of European media organizations and artificial intelligence. EU leaders respond with rapid alert teams and a disinformation crisis unit to ensure fair elections.