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title: "Daniel Thilo Schroeder"
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entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Daniel Thilo Schroeder"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-10-10T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["malicious AI swarm","disinformation","computational propaganda","Malian Twittersphere","Ethiopia"]
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Computational social scientist and lead author of a cluster of research on AI-enabled disinformation in African information environments, including a 2023 network dataset of the Malian Twittersphere, a 2026 *Science* paper (co-authored with a notably high-profile group including Nick Bostrom, Maria Ressa, and Gary Marcus) proposing a functional account of "malicious AI swarms," and an October 2026 arXiv preprint operationalizing that account for case studies of Ethiopia and Mali.

Matters to this vault as the connecting thread across three distinct works now cited here — an empirical social-media dataset, a widely co-authored definitional paper, and applied case-study research — rather than as a co-author of any single paper. Only the October 2026 preprint has been read directly; the *Science* paper and the 2023 dataset paper are cited through it, not independently fetched.

- 2026-10-14: his Ethiopia case study's two cited sources, both read directly for the first time this session, confirm his synthesis without mismatch — but are not independent of each other, since both are co-authored or led by Matti Pohjonen ([[claim-arm-d51-global-voices-not-independent-shared-author]]).
- 2026-10-17: his 2023 Malian Twittersphere dataset paper was read directly for the first time (previously cited only through the 2026 preprint); its 56,505-account figure, which the preprint's Mali case cites, holds up verbatim against the paper's own results section ([[claim-schroeder-2023-malian-twittersphere-56505-accounts]]).

## References

- [[claim-schroeder-2026-ai-swarms-no-documented-scale-operations-yet]]
- [[claim-schroeder-2026-malicious-ai-swarm-five-dimensions-four-level-capability-ladder]]
- [[claim-schroeder-2026-ethiopia-state-media-army-ai-red-sea-propaganda]]
- [[claim-arm-d51-ethiopia-media-army-apparatus-confirmed]]
- [[claim-global-voices-red-sea-ai-propaganda-amplified-lenjiso]]
- [[claim-arm-d51-global-voices-not-independent-shared-author]]