In a strange turn of events no one saw coming, Pete Buttigieg’s senior advisor Lis Smith has been accused of running a sock puppet account claiming to be a Buttigieg supporter from Nigeria. People on ...

Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram started out as a way to connect with friends, family and people of interest. But anyone on social media these days knows it’s increasingly a ...

The Justice Department said Tuesday it had uncovered and dismantled a Russian propaganda network with nearly 1,000 accounts pushing pro-Russia posts on the social media platform X. The accounts on X ...

We’ve previously written about “tweet-less, picture-less,” computer-operated accounts or bots, that make one appear more popular—a.k.a. influential on social media—than one actually is. Recently, ...

A reporter who ended online speculation that Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk was posing as an ardent fan has reportedly been temporarily banned from the social media site, and links to her story have been ...

On October 8, Twitter announced that it had suspended 926 accounts based in Thailand, for partaking in coordinated information operations on behalf of the Thai military. In a post on its website, the ...

A writer for The Spectator World had her account limited for writing an article confirming Elon Musk is not using a sock puppet account under the name Adrian Dittman. Journalist Jacqueline Sweet ...

Last August, former Fox News anchor Andrea Tantaros filed suit against her erstwhile employer, memorably alleging that despite Fox News' promotion of traditional family values on air, "behind the ...

IT’S getting harder to trust what you read on Wikipedia. An army of shadowy fake accounts is manipulating the online encyclopedia’s entries for money and damaging the site’s credibility. Last month, ...