Content

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

Social Media

Fri, Nov 8, 2019

Venezuelan “chavista” accounts take an interest in Chilean protests

Pro-Maduro accounts are tweeting about the Chilean protests, but there is no evidence of a state-backed information operation

Chile Government

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

Social Media

Fri, Nov 1, 2019

Suspicious Twitter accounts boosted Taliban hashtag prior to Afghan election

The hashtag, promoting Taliban activity, may have been amplified to thwart voters and to assert Taliban control of Afghanistan

by Alyssa Kann

Elections Government

Wed, Oct 16, 2019

Bot-like Turkish accounts wage anti-Kurdish hashtag campaign

As Turkey prepared to take large swaths of northeast Syria, pro-Turkish Twitter accounts waged a parallel information campaign

by Alyssa Kann

Security Social Media

Wed, Oct 16, 2019

Bot-like Turkish accounts wage anti-Kurdish hashtag campaign

As Turkey prepared to take large swaths of northeast Syria, pro-Turkish Twitter accounts waged a parallel information campaign

by Alyssa Kann

Security Social Media

Mon, Sep 16, 2019

Russian diplomatic Twitter accounts rewrite history of World War II

Official Twitter accounts amplified the hashtag #TruthAboutWWII in an effort to justify the Soviet Union’s signing of the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

by Eto Buziashvili

Government Social Media

Wed, Sep 4, 2019

Twitter’s Hong Kong Archives: Chinese Commercial Bots at Work

Chinese information operation mobilized commercial bot accounts to target Hong Kong pro-democracy protests

by Kanishk Karan

Hong Kong Social Media

Fri, Aug 9, 2019

Catalonia Twitter Takedown: Inorganic Campaign Pushed Pro-Independence Content

Accounts amplified pro-Catalan independence narratives in many different languages

Government Social Media

Mon, Jul 29, 2019

From Telegram to Twitter: Top Puerto Rican Officials Plotted Possible Information Operation

Leaked chat logs suggest Puerto Rican officials may have played a role in encouraging troll accounts to boost pro-government hashtags, target opponents

by Luiza Bandeira, Esteban Ponce de León

Government Social Media

Wed, Jul 3, 2019

Real Users Inadvertently Boost Bot Campaign Against Glenn Greenwald in Brazil

In criticizing a trending hashtag targeting the journalist, his supporters unintentionally amplified a bot-fueled Twitter campaign

by Luiza Bandeira

Social Media

Thu, Jun 6, 2019

A Twitter Hashtag Campaign in Libya: How Jingoism Went Viral

Accounts spread hashtags supporting Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar in parallel with his campaign to take Tripoli

Egypt Government