Social Media
Wed, Aug 15, 2018
#ElectionWatch: Loves For Sale In Brazil
Exposing a Brazilian network which trades clicks forcash
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
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?
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.
Thu, Jul 12, 2018
#InfluenceForSale: Not So Deep Fake
An increasing number of automatically generated YouTube videos are using scraped @DFRLab content
Thu, Jul 5, 2018
Islamophobic Video Goes Viral Despite Debunking
Video claiming to portray Muslims in Birmingham, actually portrays hooligans in Switzerland
Sat, Jun 30, 2018
#ElectionWatch: Hashtags For Cash In Mexico
Bots for hire push partisan election messages on all sides
Sat, Jun 30, 2018
#MinskMonitor: Downed Drone, Downloaded Videos
New Russian and separatist-aligned media playing role in information war
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
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
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
Wed, Jun 20, 2018
#ElectionWatch: Bots and Boosters in Mexico
Assessing the amplification of New Alliance Party hashtags