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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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Fri, Aug 9, 2019
Catalonia Twitter Takedown: Inorganic Campaign Pushed Pro-Independence Content
Accounts amplified pro-Catalan independence narratives in many different languages
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
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
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