Mon, Feb 17, 2020

Montenegro’s information environment through history

Fourteen years after Montenegrin independence, Russia’s and Serbia’s attempts to influence the country’s domestic affairspersist

Sun, Feb 16, 2020

Citizen sleuths in India unmask perpetrators behind JNU attack

In face of police inaction, Indian users used open-source techniques to uncover the assailants responsible for university attack

Wed, Feb 5, 2020

Misleading media coverage of Warren’s voting-related disinformation plan

A tweeted headline omitted an essential qualifier, setting off a chain of misinformation

Fri, Jan 31, 2020

Anti-Biden hashtag amplified by opposite political audiences

Supporters of Sanders, Trump, and other candidates all contributed to the hashtag’s rise on Twitter

by Alyssa Kann

Wed, Jan 29, 2020

A reason for skepticism with China’s coronavirus comms

Coronavirus brings into focus the Chinese Communist Party’s history of obfuscating the facts during public health crises

Wed, Jan 29, 2020

Iran’s confession over downing a passenger jet conjures Kremlin’s uncomfortable past

Iran confessed to PS752, while Russia never did for MH17; now, Russian propagandists are doubling down on the denials

Tue, Jan 28, 2020

Misleading claim against Venezuela’s Guaidó spread abroad

Russian, Iranian, and Cuban outlets, among others, picked up anti-Guaidó rumor from pro-Maduro sites and targeted Spanish-speaking countries

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

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

Thu, Jan 9, 2020

Nontraditional media outlets target former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko

News aggregators and YouTube were favorite vectors to attack Poroshenko ahead of July 2019 election

Thu, Jan 9, 2020

Nontraditional media outlets grabbed Ukrainians’ attention prior to elections

YouTube, news aggregators grow in popularity as sources of political news