Organization - Target
Fri, Jul 23, 2021
Online calls for attacks against Georgia’s LGBTQ community result in offline violence
Anti-LGBTQ, pro-Kremlin groups, and representatives of the Orthodox Church mobilized people online for violence in real life
Thu, Jun 3, 2021
Inauthentic Facebook assets promoted Russian interests in Sudan
Network with links to Russia’s Internet Research Agency promoted oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin and Russian naval presence in Sudan
by Tessa Knight
Fri, Apr 23, 2021
Ethiopian diaspora groups organize click-to-tweet Tigray campaigns amid information scarcity
Social media campaigns promoted pro-government and anti-conflict narratives to capture attention from an international audience.
by Tessa Knight
Mon, Feb 22, 2021
Prominent Ugandan news websites implicated in government-aligned social media campaign
Websites implicated in Facebook takedown that involved government employees engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior.
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
Mon, Jan 11, 2021
Social media disinformation campaign targets Ugandan presidential election
Facebook takes down pro-government network after investigation inspired by DFRLab research; Twitter also removes suspicious accounts.
by Tessa Knight
Wed, Dec 9, 2020
Pro-government accounts use old images to depict Ugandan protesters as hooligans
Twitter campaign ensured anti-protester hashtag trended in Uganda after protests broke out following arrest of a presidential candidate
by Tessa Knight
Thu, Nov 12, 2020
Satellite imagery shows environmental damage of reported white phosphorus use in Nagorno Karabakh
Images show extensive burn marks, traces of likely white phosphorous use on forested areas by Azerbaijan
Fri, Oct 9, 2020
Verifying Azerbaijan’s use of cluster munitions in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict
Videos online showed use of munitions in civilian areas of Stepanakert
Mon, Mar 27, 2017
Eleven time zones of protests
An open source snapshot of the anti-corruption demonstrations across the world’s largest country
Mon, Mar 20, 2017
Green-Faced in Solidarity
Russians paint their faces in online flashmob in support of opposition politician Alexey Navalny
Sat, Mar 11, 2017
Lisa 2.0
How pro-Kremlin media in Germany have been using a new fake to justify an old one
