Original investigations into social media manipulation, inauthentic account networks and disinformation on platforms such as X and Bluesky. Issues combine data-driven analysis of specific accounts with methods and code for detecting fake accounts.
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A weekly newsletter by Mark Scott on the intersection of technology, geopolitics and regulation, covering platform governance, disinformation, AI infrastructure and online political advertising. It combines original data work such as ad-spend dashboards with analysis of transatlantic digital policy.
Renée DiResta writes about online disinformation, foreign influence operations, platform moderation and the politics around counter-disinformation research. Issues combine first-hand accounts, document-based rebuttals and her own experiments, such as building an AI notewriter for Community Notes.
A personal newsletter by an ADHD-driven writer who tracks and analyses disinformation and Western rhetoric around Russia and Ukraine, with data-driven counts and historical conspiracy-theory deep dives. Readers get quantified analysis of propaganda patterns and context on how conspiracy narratives spread.
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