SSRC Media Well
Disinformation, misinformation, and “fake news” are longstanding phenomena that, in the wake of the digital revolution, have become newly politicized and consequential. SSRC's research on the topic.
Brooklyn, NY
https://brigade.djnd.si/
Twitter Brigade
Astroturfing research. We spent the second half of 2020 analysing 24 fake Twitter profiles that published divisive or hostile content and were regularly mentioned or retweeted by Slovenian right-wing politicians.
Active
Ljubljana
The publication of results in February of 2021 was met with great media and public interest, as well as attempts of defamation by other Twitter users, some of them authentic and some probably fake. We presented unequivocal evidence that these were indeed fake profiles, as well as graphs showing various aspects of their activities. We also took steps to report cases of identity theft to Twitter.
- Org. type
- Non-profit / charity / foundation
- Project type
- Project
- Country
- Slovenia (Slovenija) 🇸🇮
- Language(s)
- Slovenian
- Tech stack
- BuiltWith report →
- Categories
- Fight disinformation, Media, Media and social media analysis
- Added
- 2023-05-20
- Last modified
- 2026-03-23T11:09:00.000Z
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