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Thu, Feb 11, 2021

Extremists on Telegram exploit Parler’s de-platforming to ramp up recruiting

Rebranded Proud Boys Telegram group saw

Thu, Feb 11, 2021

Op-Ed: Myanmar’s connectivity curse

How the country’s most precious commodity

Banner: Supporters of Uganda’s ruling National Resistance Movement party drive around Kampala on boda bodas (motorcycles) following the announcement that Yoweri Museveni has won the sixth term as president. Uganda’s elections, on January 14, 2021, were the most tense in decades. (Photo by Sally Hayden / SOPA Images/Sipa USA via Reuters Connect)

Wed, Feb 10, 2021

Facebook removes inauthentic assets linked to Ugandan government

Facebook removed content engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior six days before Uganda’s presidential election.

by Tessa Knight

Africa Brigading

Fri, Feb 5, 2021

China revives conspiracy theory blaming U.S. for COVID-19

Influencer and state-controlled Weibo accounts push

Thu, Feb 4, 2021

Despite Sidney Powell Twitter ban, Twitter users amplify messages from Telegram

A majority of Powell Telegram channel

Fri, Jan 29, 2021

Op-Ed: De-platforming works, but it won’t cure extremism

There is a chronic infection of

Thu, Jan 28, 2021

Inauthentic Instagram accounts with synthetic faces target Navalny protests

Suspicious network employing AI-generated photos used

Wed, Jan 27, 2021

How pro-Kremlin outlets and blogs undermine trust in foreign-made COVID vaccines

Conspiracy theories about Western-made vaccines find

Mon, Jan 25, 2021

Explosions south of Baghdad likely sabotage, not airstrikes

Amid claims of U.S. and Israeli

Fri, Jan 22, 2021

Op-Ed: Fighting conspiracy theories with empathy and compassion

Now is the time to bring

Elections Social Media

Fri, Jan 22, 2021

Kremlin media’s weak online response to Navalny’s return to Russia

Kremlin-controlled media struggles to garner significant

Social Media

Fri, Jan 22, 2021

U.S. Capitol attack exploited in China to attack Hong Kong democracy movement

State-controlled media exploited the attack to

Hong Kong Social Media