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

Sat, Jun 30, 2018

#ElectionWatch: Hashtags For Cash In Mexico

Bots for hire push partisan election messages on all sides

Government Social Media

Sat, Jun 30, 2018

#MinskMonitor: Downed Drone, Downloaded Videos

New Russian and separatist-aligned media playing role in information war

Security Social Media

Sat, Jun 30, 2018

#ElectionWatch: Bot Battlefield at #AMLOFest

Bot-like accounts use hashtag #AMLOFest to spread pro and anti-AMLO messages three days ahead of the election

Government Social Media

Thu, Jun 28, 2018

#ElectionWatch: Trending Beyond Borders in Mexico

How the “King of Fake News” in Mexico used international Twitter bots and Facebook farms to boost political messages

Government Social Media

Wed, Jun 27, 2018

#TrollTracker: From Tags To Trolling

How tweets to a small group precede attacks on critics of the Syrian and Russian regimes

Social Media

Wed, Jun 20, 2018

#ElectionWatch: Bots and Boosters in Mexico

Assessing the amplification of New Alliance Party hashtags

Government Social Media