Tag: Internet Research Agency
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Facebook pulls fake news networks linked to Russia and Iran
Facebook has yanked four networks of coordinating accounts that it linked to Iran, Russia and election meddling. One of the networks that …
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British parliament presses Facebook on letting politicians lie in ads
In yet another letter seeking to pry accountability from Facebook, the chair of a British parliamentary committee has pressed the company …
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US sanctions two Russians for cyber-related election interference
The U.S. Treasury has imposed sanctions against two Russian men accused of working for a Russian disinformation …
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USCYBERCOM v. the Internet Research Agency
Some details have emerged regarding the recently reported attacks on the Internet Research Agency (recently renamed the Federal News …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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