Facebook finds and kills another 512 Kremlin-linked fake accounts
Two years on from the U.S. presidential election, Facebook continues to have a major problem with Russian disinformation being megaphoned …
Instagram became the preferred tool in Russia’s propaganda war
Facebook, Twitter or Google’s YouTube: those are the social media platforms that garnered most of the focus of lawmakers, researchers and …
Twitter publishes data on Iranian and Russian troll farms
A few weeks ahead of mid-term elections in the US, as social media platforms try to plug leaks that let in waves of meddling and propaganda …
Highlights from the Senate Intelligence hearing with Facebook and Twitter
Another day, another political grilling for social media platform giants. The Senate Intelligence Committee’s fourth hearing took place …
Facebook bans midterm-meddling accounts and pages
In November the USA faces its midterm elections for House and Senate and Facebook has spotted what it thinks are efforts to screw with …
Fake Hillary porn just the tip of Russia’s Reddit penetration
A fake porn video that claimed to show Hillary Clinton engaging in a sex act has been traced back to a Reddit account which the platform …
Fake Hilary porn just the tip of Russia’s Reddit penetration
A fake porn video that claimed to show Hillary Clinton engaging in a sex act has been traced back to a Reddit account which the platform …
U.S. issues broad Russian sanctions citing NotPetya attack and Internet Research Agency meddling
In a surprisingly robust reprimand for the Trump administration, the U.S. Treasury Department issued a set of sanctions Thursday citing …
Why US “cyber-warriors” can’t do anything about Russian “cyber-meddling”
02/28/2018 10:56 am Categories: Biz & IT, Policy View non-AMP version at arstechnica.com Enlarge / Admiral Michael Rogers, head of the NSA …
Read the 200,000 Russian Troll tweets Twitter deleted
Twitter announced last month that it would email notifications to 677,775 users in the US: that’s how many people it says followed one of …
Mueller Indictment Shows Russia’s Internet Research Agency Inner Workings
Mueller’s indictment against Russia’s Internet Research Agency contains a number of striking moments, from the inflammatory ads bought …
Indictments reveal how Russia’s 2016 election information warfare worked
Russian operatives were able to obfuscate their activities in 2016 by stealing the identities of U.S. citizens, renting servers based in …
U.S. Indicts 13 Russians for Election Interference
A U.S. grand jury has taken the extraordinary step of indicting 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies for allegedly interfering …
Twitter will email 677,775 users who engaged with Russian election trolls
Did you ever engage on Twitter with Jenna Abrams, the divisive alt-right blogger also known as the fabrication of a Russian troll farm? …