Reuters reported today that, French presidential frontrunner Emmanuel Macron is being targeted by Russian media and Internet attacks from within Russia with the goal of helping the election campaigns of his pro-Moscow […]
Fake News Firestorm Hits French Presidential Election
Kremlin trolls exposed: Russia’s information war against Ukraine
StopFake.org reported February 11th, UKRINFORM journalist Lana Samokhvalova found something strange while browsing facebook for a schedule of commemorative events dedicated to the Euromaidan Revolution– she accidently unearthed an entire network of […]
Marine Le Pen’s Internet Army
Politico published today a detailed report on the “militants, trolls and media-savvy activists” that are giving Marine Le Pen an edge in the upcoming French election. PARIS — Not long ago, Philippe […]
How Russia is Waging an Information War with the West
Business Insider published on February 2nd a detailed investigation of how Russia is using propaganda and counterintelligence to weaken Western countries. It describes how Russia uses misleading stories and fake news to […]
My Year as a Pro-Russia Troll Magnet
The Finnish journalist Jessica Aro asked her readers to share their experiences with Russian trolls. She then became the target of Russian trolls. She explains her experience in this article and the video […]
Trump Trolls are Targeting French Election
Buzzfeed published an article on January 24th that described how United States citizens that support Trump are now using fake social media accounts to influence the upcoming French election. The article focuses […]
U. S. Troll Entrepreneurs
On November 23, NPR published an article titled, “We Tracked Down a Fake-News Creator In the Suburbs. Here’s What We Learned.” They tracked down a Fake-News Creator named Jestin Coler. Coler is […]
The Korean Information War
North Koreans and South Koreans have a very different view of social media. North Koreans do not see it at all. The government blocks access. South Koreans have smart phones, KakaoTalk and […]
The UK’s Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group
In 2015 the UK formed a group that came to be called the Twitter Troops in the 77th Brigade. They did not post misinformation but they received a considerable amount of attention. […]
The Ukraine I-Army
One of the targets of the Russian Troll Factory has been Ukraine. It is therefore understandable that Ukraine officials came to feel they need to develop a defense of their own. In […]
