Mon, Dec 16, 2019

Visual forensics corroborate reports of Iran’s lethal crackdown on protests

Open-source evidence documented Iranian government’s use of military-grade weapons and communications blockade

Mon, Dec 16, 2019

Chaos and panic lead to misinformation after Colombia’s national strike

While the protests in Colombia were mainly peaceful, xenophobic videos and social media narratives stoked potential vigilantism

Mon, Dec 16, 2019

Georgia’s pro-democracy protests larger than reported

Fringe Facebook pages, pro-Kremlin outlets, and Georgian officials underestimated the size of the demonstrations

Tue, Dec 10, 2019

Lingering Infektion: Latvian operation mimicked Secondary Infektion tactics

Faked documents pushed on fringe websites and social media, similar to operation uncovered in June 2019

Mon, Dec 9, 2019

Far-right hooligans from Ukraine at the Hong Kong protests

Prolific hooligans crashed Hong Kong pro-democracy protests just to flex on the gram

Wed, Dec 4, 2019

Killer content: disinformation campaign derails Pakistan’s national anti-polio drive

Misleading videos online provoked mass hysteria and attacks on health workers

Mon, Dec 2, 2019

Repatriation of Maria Butina inspires more anti-American propaganda

Although Butina pleaded guilty to acting as Russian agent, pro-Kremlin outlets doubled down on disinformation about her arrest and prosecution

Tue, Nov 26, 2019

Amid the crisis in Bolivia, a Twitter flood of coup denial, bot accusations, and memes

Over 1,400 accounts reposted narratives that denounced Evo Morales as illegitimate and denied a coup had occurred in Bolivia

by Alyssa Kann

Fri, Nov 22, 2019

Backlash to controversial peace deal spun on Ukrainian and Russian media

Zelensky’s agreement to the Steinmeier Formula took both Ukrainian and Russian media bystorm

Wed, Nov 20, 2019

Sorting fact from fiction about the crisis in Bolivia

Amid Bolivia’s political unrest, coup and electoral fraud accusations spread on social media

Tue, Nov 19, 2019

Trudeaus and Trudeaunts — memes have an impact during Canadian elections

Memes on Pinterest gamify polarization in Canadian elections

Wed, Nov 13, 2019

Secondary Infektion redux? Suspected Russian intelligence operation targets Greenland

The operation employed the same strategy an earlier suspected Russian disinformation operation