Fri, Jan 10, 2020

Alleged hack of Kuwaiti News Agency tweets bodes poorly for real-time Iran coverage

False claims of U.S. troop withdrawal from Kuwait in midst of escalation with Iran vigorously denied by state-run news outlet

Fri, Dec 20, 2019

Inauthentic pages linked to majority government taken down in Georgia

Facebook took down assets, among other things, that were critical of opposition parties and biased against the United States

Mon, Dec 2, 2019

Ukrainian media jump the gun on Russia-Ukraine prisoner swap

Anonymous Telegram channels were the source of unsubstantiated reports of the supposed exchange

Wed, Nov 20, 2019

Cyber-attack knocks out Georgian websites, comes with a surprise

Over 2,000 Georgian government, nonprofit, and private websites hit with malicious code

Mon, Nov 18, 2019

Sockpuppet accounts impersonate India’s space agency chief

Accounts appeared amid increased public attention to the space agency following an unsuccessful attempt at a lunar landing

Fri, Nov 15, 2019

Blast highlights “MGB” detentions in separatist-held Donetsk

Act of sabotage by unknown assailant targeted Russian-backed separatist communication infrastructure

Wed, Nov 6, 2019

Is this granny a bot? The challenges of detecting automation

A Brazilian account that mixes bot-like and human-like features illustrates the difficulty in determining whether an account is automated

Tue, Oct 15, 2019

Facebook removes assets connected to Egyptian newspaper El Fagr

Pages, groups, and accounts masqueraded as regional news outlets in a coordinated effort

Tue, Oct 8, 2019

Anti-5G conspiracy theories dominate on social media

Top five most engaged-with articles on social media every month about 5G for the past year were anti-5G

Tue, Sep 17, 2019

Inauthentic Facebook pages amplified top Ukrainian news aggregators

Pages focused on local news, posted generic memes, and attacked Ukrainian politicians

by Roman Osadchuk, Nika Aleksejeva

Tue, Sep 17, 2019

Facebook takes down Iraq-focused pages

Some of the pages pushed pro-Saddam Hussein content, were critical of the current Iraqi government and the United States

by Eto Buziashvili, Givi Gigitashvili

Fri, Sep 14, 2018

#PutinAtWar: Russian Diplomacy Mixed with Conspiracy on Skripal

Russia’s official diplomatic social media accounts attack evidence in Skripal case