Botspot
Thu, Oct 25, 2018
#BotSpot: Journalist’s Death Followed by Fake Accounts
Conspiracy theory spread by bot accounts and pro-Saudi influencers in the wake of Jamal Khashoggi’s death
Mon, Jul 30, 2018
#BotSpot: Bots Join Backlash Against Islamophobic Cartoon Contest
The Dutch far-right organized an inflammatory cartoon contest involving Islamophobic material and bots joined the backlash
Mon, Jun 4, 2018
#BotSpot: Sex And Sensibility
A horde of Jane Austen-quoting bots leads to Russian porn sites
Fri, Apr 20, 2018
#BotSpot: Bots Target Malaysian Elections
17,000 bots target Malaysian opposition party ahead of the General Elections on May 9
Thu, Mar 29, 2018
#BotSpot: Obituary of a Botnet
Accounts are created, post thousands of time, and disappear
Fri, Dec 29, 2017
#BotSpot: How Bot-Makers Decorate Bots
Tracing the mind games of those who create fake accounts
Thu, Dec 21, 2017
Russian Trolls Target British MPs
Online abuse from pro-Russian, and apparently Russian, accounts
Tue, Oct 17, 2017
Putin’s Online Cheerleaders
The “patriots” behind pro-Kremlin, anti-Morgan Freeman memes
Sun, Oct 1, 2017
#BotSpot: Bots Boost NFL Divides
Identifying botnets amplifying #TakeAKnee and #BoycottNFL
Thu, Sep 14, 2017
#BotSpot: Memes Target Der Spiegel, Merkel
German far-right Twitter activists use bots to make hashtags trend
