Wed, Nov 6, 2019

Is this granny a bot? The challenges of detecting automation

A Brazilian account that mixes bot-like and human-like features illustrates the difficulty in determining whether an account is automated

Fri, Nov 1, 2019

Suspicious Twitter accounts boosted Taliban hashtag prior to Afghan election

The hashtag, promoting Taliban activity, may have been amplified to thwart voters and to assert Taliban control of Afghanistan

by Alyssa Kann

Tue, Oct 29, 2019

Pro-Kremlin sources target the BBC for report on murdered Chechen commander

Russian officials, news sites, and social network users accused the BBC of glorifying Zelimkhan Khangoshvili

Thu, Oct 24, 2019

Facebook takes down Iranian assets, some targeting Latin American audiences

Iran-based assets targeted audiences in Latin America and the United States with pro-Iranian messaging

Wed, Oct 16, 2019

Bot-like Turkish accounts wage anti-Kurdish hashtag campaign

As Turkey prepared to take large swaths of northeast Syria, pro-Turkish Twitter accounts waged a parallel information campaign

by Alyssa Kann

Wed, Oct 16, 2019

Bot-like Turkish accounts wage anti-Kurdish hashtag campaign

As Turkey prepared to take large swaths of northeast Syria, pro-Turkish Twitter accounts waged a parallel information campaign

by Alyssa Kann

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

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

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