Thu, Mar 12, 2020

Operation Copy/Paste: Twitter network artificially amplified anti-Guaidó hashtags

Accounts used random text, including Wikipedia entries and song lyrics, to post anti-Guaidó hashtags on Twitter, in a likely attempt to avoid detection

Fri, Mar 6, 2020

Rumors of a U.S. military intervention in Venezuela grow

Blogs and YouTube videos spread the rumor that Juan Guaidó gave the United States permission to intervene militarily in Venezuela

Sun, Mar 1, 2020

U.S. Senator Tom Cotton amplified a coronavirus conspiracy denounced by scientists

The Arkansas senator furthered “infodemic” by pushing debunked claim that the novel coronavirus may have been created in a Wuhan laboratory

Wed, Feb 26, 2020

Anonymous Ukrainian Telegram channels serve as gateways to fringe media

Allegations against former Ukrainian MP on anonymous Telegram channels made way to fringe media and other MPs’ Telegram channels

Tue, Feb 25, 2020

Anonymous pro-Russian Telegram channels target protests in Belarus

Amid ongoing economic integration talks between Russia and Belarus, eight channels attacked opponents of integration and spread pro-Kremlin narratives

Wed, Feb 19, 2020

Anti-Guaidó and anti-Maduro hashtags trend on Twitter

Accounts that support Brazilian President Bolsonaro pushed hashtags denouncing Guaidó and Maduro and promoted military intervention in Venezuela

Mon, Feb 17, 2020

Montenegro’s information environment through history

Fourteen years after Montenegrin independence, Russia’s and Serbia’s attempts to influence the country’s domestic affairspersist

Sun, Feb 16, 2020

Citizen sleuths in India unmask perpetrators behind JNU attack

In face of police inaction, Indian users used open-source techniques to uncover the assailants responsible for university attack

Wed, Feb 5, 2020

Misleading media coverage of Warren’s voting-related disinformation plan

A tweeted headline omitted an essential qualifier, setting off a chain of misinformation

Fri, Jan 31, 2020

Anti-Biden hashtag amplified by opposite political audiences

Supporters of Sanders, Trump, and other candidates all contributed to the hashtag’s rise on Twitter

by Alyssa Kann

Wed, Jan 29, 2020

A reason for skepticism with China’s coronavirus comms

Coronavirus brings into focus the Chinese Communist Party’s history of obfuscating the facts during public health crises

Wed, Jan 29, 2020

Iran’s confession over downing a passenger jet conjures Kremlin’s uncomfortable past

Iran confessed to PS752, while Russia never did for MH17; now, Russian propagandists are doubling down on the denials