At the Indiana University Observatory on Social Media, my colleagues and I study influence campaigns and design technical solutions—algorithms—to detect and counter them. State-of-the-art methods ...

Israel has launched a multimillion-dollar campaign — spearheaded by a former top lieutenant of President Trump — to reshape ...

In the early days of the second Trump administration, while America focuses on domestic priorities and global challenges, Qatar is executing a calculated influence campaign within America’s power ...

In recent months, Israeli Facebook users began stumbling across a new group with a familiar name: “Mothers Cook Together.” With thousands of members and recipes filling its feed, the group looked ...

Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a ...

The final stretch of the 2024 election was marked by a series of increasingly brazen attempts to influence voters and disrupt polling places. U.S. intelligence officials and researchers believe Russia ...

Social Design Agency (SDA,) a Russian outfit the US government recently accused of operating a malign influence campaign dubbed "Doppelgänger," is running another similar campaign concurrently, ...

In mid-April, the State Department shuttered the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference, an office tasked with fighting foreign influence campaigns. The move followed an earlier ...

In this March 29, 2018, file photo, the logo for Facebook appears on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York's Times Square. Facebook's user base and revenue grew more slowly than expected in the ...

The mysterious field of information operations (IO) has long been part of war, conflict, and competition. From Cold War book distribution programs to the Eastern Bloc to Russian-affiliated websites ...

A prominent former U.S. State Department official who worked to fight Russian disinformation has labeled the Trump presidential campaign an “influence operation,” with several experts echoing his ...

A hit-and-run cover-up. Sexual abuse allegations from 27 years ago. An election worker ripping up ballots. Haitian immigrants admitting to voter fraud. These were some of the stories featured in a ...