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’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. Catalyzing a global network of digital forensic researchers, following conflicts in real time.
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Oct 24, 2018
#BotSpot: Journalist’s Death Followed by Fake Accounts
Conspiracy theory spread by bot accounts and
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Jul 29, 2018
#BotSpot: Bots Join Backlash Against Islamophobic Cartoon Contest
The Dutch far-right organized an inflammatory cartoon contest involving Islamophobic material and bots joined the backlash
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Jun 3, 2018
#BotSpot: Sex And Sensibility
A horde of Jane Austen-quoting bots leads to Russian porn sites
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Apr 20, 2018
#BotSpot: Bots Target Malaysian Elections
17,000 bots target Malaysian opposition party ahead of the General Elections on May 9
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Mar 29, 2018
#BotSpot: Obituary of a Botnet
Accounts are created, post thousands of time, and disappear
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Jan 9, 2018
#BotSpot: A Botnet Is Born
We catch the moment that a probable botnet is created
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Dec 29, 2017
#BotSpot: How Bot-Makers Decorate Bots
Tracing the mind games of those who create fake accounts
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Dec 20, 2017
Russian Trolls Target British MPs
Online abuse from pro-Russian, and apparently Russian, accounts
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Oct 17, 2017
Putin’s Online Cheerleaders
The “patriots” behind pro-Kremlin, anti-Morgan Freeman memes
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Sep 30, 2017
#BotSpot: Bots Boost NFL Divides
Identifying botnets amplifying #TakeAKnee and #BoycottNFL
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