Social Media
Wed, Feb 12, 2020
Facebook shut down commercial disinformation network based in Myanmar and Vietnam
Inauthentic pages linked to telecom provider MyTel ran campaigns aimed at discrediting the company’s competitors
Wed, Jan 29, 2020
OneCoin Ponzi scheme fans gamed reviews on TrustPilot and Quora
Inauthentic accounts boosted purported cryptocurrency’s online reputation amid regulatory scrutiny
Fri, Jan 24, 2020
Top takes: A Facebook drama in three acts
An exclusive report, in collaboration with Der Spiegel, reveals a network of fake accounts building fake lifetimes in fake ways
Fri, Jan 24, 2020
A Facebook drama, act 1: a network of fakes
Accounts cultivated fake personas but left an online trail of inconsistencies
Fri, Jan 24, 2020
A Facebook drama, act 2: the coordination
Scripted family dramas betrayed a coordinated and cultivated network
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
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
