Social Media

Fri, Jan 24, 2020

A Facebook drama, act 1: a network of fakes

Accounts cultivated fake personas but left an online trail of inconsistencies

Social Media

Fri, Jan 24, 2020

A Facebook drama, act 2: the coordination

Scripted family dramas betrayed a coordinated and cultivated network

Social Media

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

Social Media

Fri, Jan 24, 2020

Twitter account impersonating South African prosecutor suspended

A Twitter account recently promised the country “high profile arrests” before suspension

Government Social Media

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

Government Social Media

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

Social Media

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

Social Media

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

Social Media

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

Government Social Media

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

Social Media

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

Security Social Media

Fri, Dec 20, 2019

Graphika and DFRLab release joint report #OperationFFS

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Social Media