Astroturfing

Asa WinstanleyLobby Watch17 July 2019 Alex Richardson laughing with Joan Ryan and Shai Masot about more than 1 million pounds in Israeli funding in Al Jazeeras undercover film, left, and appearing unnamed in the BBC Panorama film Is Labour Anti-Semitic? on t…

In the first of a three-part podcast series, we're going to look at the contemporary risks of cyber warfare, from ransomware and extortion to online banking and culture wars. Google PlayApple Podcasts Our guests include: Dawn Thomas, Associate Dir…

Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller is scheduled to appear before Congress on July 17 to testify about his findings during the Russia investigation but it remains an open question whether the hearing will be a bombshell or a damp squib. One reason to think…

Malicious Use Of AI This article is the second in a series of four articles on the work we’ve been doing for the European Union’s Horizon 2020 project codenamed SHERPA. Each of the articles in this series contain excerpts from a publication entitled “Securit…

Sen. Kamala Harris hugs supporters on Jan. 27 in Oakland, California. Kamala Harris is *not* an American Black. She is half Indian and half Jamaican, read one of a dozen similar tweets questioning Harris identity sent in the moments after she, while confront…

Following the invention of deepfakes, which many fear will cause damage on a global scale if used by the wrong hands, a terrifying new AI-powered technology called “Fake Text” has emerged with the potential to wreak even more havoc. ‘Fake Text’ Introduces Co…

Jeff Ballingall is smiling as his team inflates a big plastic banana with #TrudeauIsBananas printed on its side, on the busy pedestrian mall across the corner from Prime Minister Justin Trudeaus Ottawa office. A woman with a camera around her neck is snappin…

On 3rd April, Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) minister Alan Duncan revealed his departments Counter Disinformation and Media Development Programme - which bankrolls the Institute for Statecraft and its Integrity Initiative subsidiary - was funding a n…

Users from pro-Trump communities on 4chan and Reddit implored fellow members to vote for lower-polling candidates in online polls, specifically Tulsi Gabbard and Bill de Blasio, in the hours after Wednesdays Democratic debate a sign that digital manipulation …

About /r/The_Donald is a subreddit on the website Reddit for supporters of United States president-elect Donald Trump. Members of the online community often refer to themselves as "centipedes" and have been associated with the loose conservative group known …