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Mon, Mar 2, 2020
Facebook shuts down Egyptian disinformation network, bans two marketing companies
Facebook removed more than 1,700 assets linked to Egyptian digital marketing firms targeting audiences in Middle East and North Africa
Wed, Feb 26, 2020
Anonymous Ukrainian Telegram channels serve as gateways to fringe media
Allegations against former Ukrainian MP on anonymous Telegram channels made way to fringe media and other MPs’ Telegram channels
Tue, Feb 25, 2020
Anonymous pro-Russian Telegram channels target protests in Belarus
Amid ongoing economic integration talks between Russia and Belarus, eight channels attacked opponents of integration and spread pro-Kremlin narratives
Wed, Feb 19, 2020
Anti-Guaidó and anti-Maduro hashtags trend on Twitter
Accounts that support Brazilian President Bolsonaro pushed hashtags denouncing Guaidó and Maduro and promoted military intervention in Venezuela
Sun, Feb 16, 2020
The South African information space: a legacy of disinformation from apartheid to 2020
Apartheid-era propaganda fomented media distrust, and more than 25 years into democracy, South Africa still struggles with the legacy
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 12, 2020
Facebook shut down commercial disinformation network based in Myanmar and Vietnam
Inauthentic pages linked to telecom provider MyTel ran campaigns aimed at discrediting the company’s competitors
Wed, Jan 29, 2020
OneCoin Ponzi scheme fans gamed reviews on TrustPilot and Quora
Inauthentic accounts boosted purported cryptocurrency’s online reputation amid regulatory scrutiny
Fri, Jan 24, 2020
Top takes: A Facebook drama in three acts
An exclusive report, in collaboration with Der Spiegel, reveals a network of fake accounts building fake lifetimes in fake ways
Fri, Jan 24, 2020
A Facebook drama, act 1: a network of fakes
Accounts cultivated fake personas but left an online trail of inconsistencies
Fri, Jan 24, 2020
A Facebook drama, act 2: the coordination
Scripted family dramas betrayed a coordinated and cultivated network
Fri, Jan 24, 2020
A Facebook drama, act 3: the content
Fake accounts pushed charged political content as a means of gathering a particular audience susceptible to the scam
