A technical how-to for open source investigators — Coordination is one of the central features of information operations and disinformation campaigns, which can be defined as concerted efforts to target people with false or misleading information, often with some strategic objective (political, social, financial), while using the affordances provided by social media platforms. Since 2017, platforms like Facebook…

An open-source human rights investigator explains the dangers of the digital spread of disinformation — It’s just over two weeks since George Floyd was murdered by police officers in Minneapolis. Since that time, information, misinformation, and disinformation have been traveling across the internet at much faster and more confusing speeds than normal. In a world already reeling from a global pandemic and social media sites…