Social Media
Fri, Aug 24, 2018
#ElectionWatch: RT’s One-Sided Coverage of Midterms
Assessing partisan bias in the Kremlin broadcaster’s reporting
Tue, Aug 21, 2018
#BalticBrief: Kremlin Pivots to Video in the Baltics
How Sputnik tried to use short video stories to drive traffic to its Baltic Facebook pages
Fri, Aug 17, 2018
#ElectionWatch: Bots Around Brazil’s First Presidential Debate
Low impact of bots and fake data, but at least one “fake” article among the top stories
Thu, Aug 16, 2018
#TrollTracker: Russian Traces in Facebook Takedown
Part Three — How the trolls tried to cover their tracks
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
