UK’s Conservative Party’s Communications Team Briefly Rebrands to Mislead Public
The Twitter account @CCHQPress switched its name and logo to mimic a fact-checking site.
Identifying Fake News
Vietnam Veterans Group: ‘Foreign Criminals’ Targeting Servicemembers for Online Exploitation
The group called on the Trump administration to “take swift, coordinated actions” to protect veterans.
Scams and Hoax Accounts Proliferate on Instagram
April 2019 saw the culmination of a months-long popular uprising in the country of Sudan, when its former president Omar al-Bashir stepped down from his post. The Sudanese military quickly took control of the country …
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Identifying Fake News Series: ‘Contact Us’ Pages
Fake news can vary widely in quality and believably from source to source, but quite often identifying it is as easy as taking a moment to learn who is behind a that particular website or …
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Identifying Fake News Series: Fake News Generators
For the last several years, we have been hearing about foreign governments subverting United States elections using sophisticated teams that create fake stories and circulate them on social media. While foreign governments and large teams …
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