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Mon, Jul 13, 2020
All the president’s trolls: real and fake Twitter fights in El Salvador
Plunging homicide rate sparks Twitter debate
Fri, Jul 3, 2020
Afrophobic South African Twitter account connected to nationalist political party
The widely followed account displayed Afrophobic
Thu, Apr 2, 2020
Twitter botnet targeted Turkey while politicizing coronavirus
Network traces back to anti-Turkey operation
Tue, Mar 31, 2020
The “People’s Quarantine” — Belarusians promote social distancing despite Lukashenko’s ignorance
Belarusian society is managing self-quarantine despite lack of nationwide measures to prevent spread ofCOVID-19
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, Jan 24, 2020
Twitter account impersonating South African prosecutor suspended
A Twitter account recently promised the country “high profile arrests” before suspension
Fri, Jan 24, 2020
Third-party botspotting tool had South African politicians tilting at windmills
A “botspotting” analysis using a single, inaccurate tool had prominent South African politicians leveling claims of coordinated social media manipulation against each other
Fri, Jan 17, 2020
Case study: politically charged pro-India hashtags amid Kashmir’s digital blackout
The accounts, some of them inauthentic, spread #KashmirWelcomesChange and #KashmirWithModi hashtags at the start of the ongoing blackout
Fri, Jan 17, 2020
Case study: the Pakistani side of politically charged hashtags amid Kashmir’s digital blackout
Pakistanis amplified the hashtags #IndiaUsingClusterBombs and #KashmirUnderThreat
Tue, Jan 14, 2020
Network of pro-Maduro Twitter accounts pushed anti-Guaidó hashtags
Over 100 accounts targeted Juan Guaidó following the January 5 elections in Venezuela
Sat, Jan 4, 2020
Tensions escalate on social media platforms after Soleimani’s death
Content targeting the United States government surfaced on Instagram and Twitter following the death of Qasem Soleimani
Tue, Nov 26, 2019
Amid the crisis in Bolivia, a Twitter flood of coup denial, bot accusations, and memes
Over 1,400 accounts reposted narratives that denounced Evo Morales as illegitimate and denied a coup had occurred in Bolivia
by Alyssa Kann
