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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
Wed, Jan 22, 2020
Baltnews Latvia’s audience size decreased after domain suspension
Open-source web traffic analysis reveals significant decrease in the Kremlin outlet’s reach
Fri, Jan 17, 2020
Case study: politically charged pro-India hashtags amid Kashmir’s digital blackout
The accounts, some of them inauthentic, spread #KashmirWelcomesChange and #KashmirWithModi hashtags at the start of the ongoing blackout
Fri, Jan 17, 2020
Case study: the Pakistani side of politically charged hashtags amid Kashmir’s digital blackout
Pakistanis amplified the hashtags #IndiaUsingClusterBombs and #KashmirUnderThreat
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
Fri, Jan 10, 2020
Alleged hack of Kuwaiti News Agency tweets bodes poorly for real-time Iran coverage
False claims of U.S. troop withdrawal from Kuwait in midst of escalation with Iran vigorously denied by state-run news outlet
Sat, Jan 4, 2020
Tensions escalate on social media platforms after Soleimani’s death
Content targeting the United States government surfaced on Instagram and Twitter following the death of Qasem Soleimani
Fri, Dec 20, 2019
Graphika and DFRLab release joint report #OperationFFS
Graphika and the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab work together to publish a report discovering fake Facebook profiles.
Fri, Dec 20, 2019
Inauthentic pages linked to majority government taken down in Georgia
Facebook took down assets, among other things, that were critical of opposition parties and biased against the United States
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
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
