Platform

Fri, Sep 7, 2018

#BreakingSyria: Who Shapes the Narrative on the Free Syrian Army

Looking at the highest profile English and Arabic language networks covering the Free Syrian Army

Security Social Media

Thu, Aug 30, 2018

#ElectionWatch: URSAL, Illuminati, and Brazil’s YouTube Subculture

Amplified through YouTube, a term created as a joke ends up on nationally televised presidential debate

Government Social Media

Fri, Aug 24, 2018

#ElectionWatch: RT’s One-Sided Coverage of Midterms

Assessing partisan bias in the Kremlin broadcaster’s reporting

Government Social Media

Tue, Aug 21, 2018

#BalticBrief: Kremlin Pivots to Video in the Baltics

How Sputnik tried to use short video stories to drive traffic to its Baltic Facebook pages

BalticBrief Government

Fri, Aug 17, 2018

#ElectionWatch: Bots Around Brazil’s First Presidential Debate

Low impact of bots and fake data, but at least one “fake” article among the top stories

Government Social Media

Thu, Aug 16, 2018

#TrollTracker: Russian Traces in Facebook Takedown

Part Three — How the trolls tried to cover their tracks

Government Social Media

Wed, Aug 15, 2018

#ElectionWatch: Loves For Sale In Brazil

Exposing a Brazilian network which trades clicks forcash

Government Social Media

Wed, Jul 25, 2018

#ElectionWatch: Bots and Biased Polls in Pakistani Elections

Parties across the spectrum used automation to amplify messages ahead of the vote

Government Social Media

Fri, Jul 20, 2018

#MinskMonitor: Questions Over Ukrainian Liberation of Village

Zolote-4 is “secured” by Ukrainian forces after prolonged skirmishes, but did they ever losecontrol?

Security Social Media

Thu, Jul 12, 2018

#MinskMonitor: Wagner’s Role in Key Ukrainian Battle Revealed

New footage shows the Private Military Company’s involvement in Battle of Debaltseve.

Geolocation Security

Thu, Jul 12, 2018

#InfluenceForSale: Not So Deep Fake

An increasing number of automatically generated YouTube videos are using scraped @DFRLab content

Social Media YouTube

Thu, Jul 5, 2018

Islamophobic Video Goes Viral Despite Debunking

Video claiming to portray Muslims in Birmingham, actually portrays hooligans in Switzerland

Social Media