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Troll farms peddling misinformation on Facebook reached 140 million Americans monthly ahead of the 2020 presidential election, report says
Troll farms were behind some of the most popular pages and content on Facebook leading up to the 20…
Francis Agustin
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A pro-Trump youth activist group paid teenagers to push conservative talking points on social media, including misleading claims and disinformation
Experts told The Washington Post that those posts could circumvent the efforts by social media plat…
Lauren Frias
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A Russian troll factory pushed a fake Hillary Clinton sex tape on Reddit
Currently, as the fourth-most-visited website in the US, Reddit is home to the largest and most pop…
Pat Ralph
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Chris Chan, the online personality accused by police of incest with her mother, has been trolled by the internet for over a decade
Chris Chan, the internet star who was arrested and charged with incest, has been involved in numero…
Kieran Press-Reynolds
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Facebook has cracked down on dozens of fake accounts posing as Black supporters for Trump
The accounts, which used names such as "BlackPeopleVoteForTrump", were pushed out by a foreign pro-…
Sophia Ankel
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'Our task was to set Americans against their own government': New details emerge about Russia's trolling operation
The foreign desk had a more sophisticated purpose, according to Max, who worked in that department.…
Sonam Sheth
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Leaked documents shed light on the astonishing intricacy of Russia's trolling operation
This week, additional details about the IRA's efforts spilled out after The Daily Beast reported on…
Sonam Sheth
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How 'swatting' site Kiwi Farms has created a bizarre alliance between MAGA's Marjorie Taylor Greene and transgender activists
The suspect in Marjorie Taylor Greene's "swatting" incident said he was a Kiwi Farms member. The on…
Joshua Zitser
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Facebook says Russia may have been behind a fresh plot to contaminate US democracy during the midterms
Facebook has been much more vigilant and transparent about suspected meddling than it was during th…
Jake Kanter,Jake Kanter
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What to know about Kiwi Farms, the forum that has been linked to suicides and was made to troll Chris Chan years before she was arrested on an incest charge
Kiwi Farms originated as a forum dedicated to Chris Chan - who was arrested Sunday on an incest cha…
Charlotte Colombo
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Russian bots reportedly pushed a Thanksgiving food poisoning hoax on Twitter as practice for influencing the 2016 election
The Russian campaign to wage information warfare of this sort through Twitter, Facebook, and other …
Michal Kranz
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Trump confirms he ordered a cyberattack on a notorious Russian troll farm during the 2018 midterms
Trump confirms the US launched a cyberattack on the Internet Research Agency, an infamous Russian t…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Russian trolls tried to stoke racial divisions with the NFL kneeling debate and Colin Kaepernick well after 2016, Senate report says
"A Left Troll account, @wokeluisa, tweeted in support of Colin Kaepernick and tje NFL protests on M…
John Haltiwanger
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Instagram's new rules to ban trolls have the same old problem
Normally, after one or two warnings, the user is locked out of Instagram for 24 hours, and the…
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Trump rails against Russia investigation and Russian Facebook ads in Saturday tweetstorm
The explosive dossier has not been verified in whole, but it is currently being used as a "roadmap"…
Sonam Sheth
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Nearly 1,000 Russian trolls were banned from Reddit - here's what they were posting about
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced Tuesday that the forum-based site had identified and banned near…
Kaylee Fagan
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Facebook takes down over 200 accounts and pages run by the IRA, a notorious Russian troll farm
Facebook's announcement, titled, "Authenticity Matters: The IRA Has No Place on Facebook," comes as…
Sonam Sheth
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Facebook says it just uncovered one of the largest troll farms ever - run by the government of Nicaragua
The campaign was "one of the most cross-governmental troll operations we've disrupted to date," Fac…
Charles Davis
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A watchdog group pretended to be Russian and bought 'divisive' Google ads - now, Google is blasting the group for its ties to Oracle
"To date, largely because of this work, the abuse from foreign entities has been limited. Now that …