Tue, Oct 15, 2019

UAE Facebook pages targeted Qatar and Muslim Brotherhood

The multi-regional operation spread anti-Qatar content online and attacked the Muslim Brotherhood

Tue, Oct 15, 2019

Facebook removes assets connected to Egyptian newspaper El Fagr

Pages, groups, and accounts masqueraded as regional news outlets in a coordinated effort

Thu, Oct 10, 2019

Facebook takes down pro-Indonesian pages targeting West Papua

Removed pages masked themselves as West Papuan pages while promoting Indonesian state interests

by Alyssa Kann

Tue, Oct 8, 2019

Anti-5G conspiracy theories dominate on social media

Top five most engaged-with articles on social media every month about 5G for the past year were anti-5G

Wed, Oct 2, 2019

Facebook and Twitter remove accounts connected to Spanish political party

Social platforms connected the assets to the conservative Partido Popular

Thu, Sep 26, 2019

Dueling Kashmir narratives on social media, part 2: India

Indian and Pakistani users amplified misleading content on social media in the wake of Kashmir digital blackout

by Ayushman Kaul

Thu, Sep 26, 2019

Dueling Kashmir narratives on social media, part 1: Pakistan

Indian and Pakistani users amplified misleading content on social media in the wake of Kashmir’s digital blackout

by Ayushman Kaul

Wed, Sep 25, 2019

Telegram channels used to doxx and report Hong Kong protesters to Chinese authorities

Channels are collecting and submitting personally identifiable information of Hong Kong protesters to China’s Ministry of StateSecurity

Wed, Sep 18, 2019

Macron’s Amazon fire backlash

After posting an old photo of the Amazon fires, Macron triggered a sudden Twitter backlash

by Luiza Bandeira, Lukas Andriukaitis

Wed, Sep 18, 2019

Objective truth and the Amazon are both aflame

Misinformation and disinformation comingled amid uproar around the Brazilian government’s inaction

by Luiza Bandeira

Tue, Sep 17, 2019

Inauthentic Facebook pages amplified top Ukrainian news aggregators

Pages focused on local news, posted generic memes, and attacked Ukrainian politicians

by Roman Osadchuk, Nika Aleksejeva

Tue, Sep 17, 2019

Facebook takes down Iraq-focused pages

Some of the pages pushed pro-Saddam Hussein content, were critical of the current Iraqi government and the United States

by Eto Buziashvili, Givi Gigitashvili