Critics question Alphabet's Jigsaw subsidiary's decision to hire a disinformation vendor to run a campaign during research into state-sponsored disinformation
FOR MORE THAN two years, the notion of social media disinformation campaigns has conjured up images of Russia's Internet Research Agency … Tweets: @sheeraf , @a_greenberg , @a_greenberg , @sheeraf , @...
Senate report: Instagram dwarfs all social networks in Russia's IRA posts and engagements, yet Facebook execs have not been upfront about this
Body — New Reports Shed Light … Jason Parham / Wired : Targeting Black Americans, Russia's IRA Exploited Racial Wounds Wayne Rash / eWeek : Why Russian Social Media Activities Indicate Peril for Ent...
Facebook says it has blocked 115 accounts on its services that may have been engaged in “coordinated inauthentic behavior” ahead of the US midterm elections
As part of our efforts to prevent interference … Tony Romm / Washington Post : Facebook ties newly suspended accounts to the Kremlin, a ‘timely reminder’ of election meddling threat CNN : Facebook tak...
Facebook says that over 100 accounts it removed Monday were linked to the Russia-based Internet Research Agency
The 115 accounts Facebook took down yesterday for inauthentic behavior ahead of the mid-term elections may indeed have been linked to the Russia-based Internet Research Agency …
Twitter has published data sets of millions of tweets, images, videos, and thousands of accounts linked to Russia and Iran meddling for analysis by researchers
http://blog.twitter.com/... No surprises, there are several disinformation accounts which push Jeremy Corbyn's narratives /1 Thomas Rid / @ridt : So this is fascinating and good news for researchers: ...
Right-wing sites funded by Russia's Internet Research Agency were used to target /r/The_Donald subreddit where the sites' stories were shared thousands of times
Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed : Tweets: @buzzfeednews and @broderick Tweets: @buzzfeednews : Reddit's largest pro-Trump subreddit, r/The_Donald, appears to have been targeted by Russian propaganda for ye...
Overview of the Senate hearing on foreign influence in social media, which heard testimony from Sheryl Sandberg and Jack Dorsey
Facebook and Twitter Finally Face the Music Matt Binder / Mashable : Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweets opening testimony during congressional hearing Don Reisinger / Fortune : Watch Here: Twitter and Fac...
Facebook faces continuing calls for regulation of microtargeted ads in US and Europe after probes of Internet Research Agency and Cambridge Analytica data use
Natasha Singer / New York Times :
Facebook faces continuing calls for regulation of microtargeted ads in US and Europe after probes of Internet Research Agency and Cambridge Analytica data use
Facebook has made a mint by enabling advertisers to identify and reach the very people most likely to react to their messages.
Study: of 228 groups found running divisive Facebook ads during 2016 election, 122 were “suspicious” and ran 4x more ads than others, ~20 had known links to IRA
WHEN YOUNG MIE Kim began studying political ads on Facebook in August of 2016—while Hillary Clinton was still leading the polls … Tweets: @wired , @davidfrum , @issielapowsky , @issielapowsky , @campa...