Not long ago, the rise of social media inspired great optimism about its potential for flattening
access to economic and political opportunity, enabling collective action, and facilitating new …

Over the past couple of years, anecdotal evidence has emerged linking coordinated
campaigns by state-sponsored actors with efforts to manipulate public opinion on the Web …

We study how easy it is to distinguish influence operations from organic social media activity
by assessing the performance of a platform-agnostic machine learning approach. Our …

There is evidence that Russia's Internet Research Agency attempted to interfere with the
2016 US election by running fake accounts on Twitter—often referred to as “Russian trolls” …

It has become apparent that human accounts are not the sole actors in the social media
scenario. The expanding role of social media in the consumption and diffusion of information …

State-sponsored organizations are increasingly linked to efforts aimed to exploit social
media for information warfare and manipulating public opinion. Typically, their activities rely …