Wednesday September 04, 2024
Graphika in the News: The #Americans
The Graphika Team
Graphika's latest report is giving readers a closer look at how Chinese state-linked operation Spamouflage has used social media to masquerade as American voters and push divisive narratives.
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Wednesday September 11, 2024
Deepfakes: Graphika's Vladimir Barash Interviewed in New Podcast
The Graphika Team
Are deepfakes a looming threat to the truth as we know it? How do we distinguish fact from fiction in an age where seeing is no longer believing?
Read the full article hereWednesday September 4, 2024
Graphika in the News: The #Americans
The Graphika Team
Graphika's latest report is giving readers a closer look at how Chinese state-linked operation Spamouflage has used social media to masquerade as American voters and push divisive narratives.
Read the full article hereMonday August 26, 2024
Islamic State Now Using AI to Spread Its Message: Graphika's Daniel Siegel Cited in New Reuters Report
Graphika Team
Islamic State Now Using AI to Spread Its Message: Graphika's Daniel Siegel Cited in New Reuters Report
Read the full article hereWednesday August 14, 2024
Election 2024: Foreign Accounts Push Political Lies on TikTok
The Graphika Team
Graphika's Chief Intelligence Officer Jack Stubbs Provides Insight for the Wall Street Journal's Latest Piece on TikTok-Based Election Interference.
Read the full article hereFriday August 9, 2024
Olympic Disinformation: An Interview with Cristina López G. on Univision
Graphika Team
Graphika Senior Analyst Cristina López appeared on Univision to discuss what our team has observed in this area and the impact on public perception of the games.
Read the full article hereFriday July 5, 2024
Broken News: Generative AI vs. Democracy, Featuring Tyler Williams, Director of Investigations at Graphika
Tyler Williams, Director of Investigations at Graphika, was recently featured in a TaiwanPlus Broken News documentary on disinformation in Taiwan.
Read the full article hereMonday June 3, 2024
Rising Threat: Stopping Nonconsensual AI-Generated Intimate Images (NCII)
Graphika Team
Tyler Williams, director of investigations at Graphika, appeared on Scripps News' "Morning Rush" recently to discuss the alarming rise of undressing apps and nonconsensual, AI-generated content.
Read the full article hereWednesday June 21, 2023
Graphika Named to TIME100 Most Influential Companies: Pioneers
Graphika Team
NEW YORK - June 21, 2023 - Graphika today announces inclusion in the TIME100 Most Influential Companies list. TIME revealed its third annual list, highlighting companies making an extraordinary impact worldwide.
Read the full article hereThursday November 3, 2022
Same Schmitz, Different Day
Léa Ronzaud, Jack Stubbs, and Tyler Williams
Suspected Russian actors are engaged in a renewed effort to target far-right audiences in the U.S. with politically divisive messaging ahead of the November midterm elections.
Read the full article hereThursday October 27, 2022
Portrait Mode: GAN Collages and Fake Personas
Tyler Williams and Razmik Kozakjian
This blog details the first time we've identified fake personas using “GAN-collages” as part of an online influence operation. The technique differs from previous operations we have analyzed, which typically “steal” profile pictures from unrelated social media accounts and online resources, or use fake faces created using artificial intelligence techniques, such as generative adversarial networks (GAN).
Read the full article hereWednesday September 21, 2022
Fertile Ground: Communities Sowing Reproductive Health Misinformation Online
The Graphika Team
This blog post examines three of the most prominent groups we have identified seeding and spreading false or misleading information about reproductive health issues online. For each group, we aim to detail their community characteristics, structure, and associated behaviors.
Read the full article hereMonday September 12, 2022
Trolling Taiwan
The Graphika Team
Graphika has identified a coordinated and sustained effort to manipulate online conversations around the topic of Taiwanese independence between Aug. 14 - Sept. 1, 2022. The campaign launched following U.S. Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan on Aug. 2 and promoted narratives critical of Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen’s foreign and defense policies across 40 different online platforms.
Read the full article hereTuesday August 16, 2022
Graphika Launches Atlas to Empower Enterprises with Actionable Social Intelligence for Strategic Decision-Making
Graphika Team
Graphika announces Atlas, a new product on the Graphika Platform that provides intelligence derived from the communities engaged with online conversations related to today’s most pressing topics.
Read the full article hereThursday April 28, 2022
Big Lie to Big Lead: Lessons Learned from the Philippines Election
Kyle Weiss
On May 9, Filipinos will vote in presidential and vice-presidential elections that researchers have described as a vote on the future of democracy in the Philippines. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., son of former dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos, leads the polls. Marcos is running alongside vice-presidential candidate Sara Duterte, the daughter of President Rodrigo Duterte. Marcos’ closest competition is Vice President Leni Robredo, who has gained ground in the weeks before the vote.
Read the full article hereMonday September 6, 2021
Press Release: Graphika Appoints Disinformation Technologist to Leadership Team
Graphika Team
Jennifer Mathieu, Ph.D., Joins as CTO to Accelerate Technical Innovation and Delivery of Company’s SaaS Offerings
Read the full article hereFriday September 3, 2021
Artemisinin: Guo Wengui Is Borrowing Anti-Vaxx Tactics to Promote a New “Miracle Cure”
Kyle Weiss
During a livestream broadcast on Aug. 30, exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui “revealed” the Chinese Communist Party’s secret “antidote” to Covid-19: artemisinin, a malaria treatment currently being tested on hospitalized Covid-19 patients by the World Health Organization.
Read the full article hereTuesday March 9, 2021
Graphika Named to Fast Company’s Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2021
Graphika Team
Today, Graphika has been named to Fast Company’s prestigious annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2021. The list honors the businesses that have not only found a way to be resilient in the past year, but also turned those challenges into impact-making processes. These companies did more than survive, they thrived—making an impact on their industries and culture as a whole. This year’s MIC list features 463 businesses from 29 countries.
Read the full article hereTuesday March 2, 2021
Unveiling the Election Integrity Partnership Final Report: The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Elections
Graphika Team
Today, Graphika and our partners in the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) have released the results of our months-long effort to collaboratively identify, track, and respond to voting-related mis- and disinformation during the 2020 U.S. elections, “The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Elections.”
Read the full article hereFriday January 22, 2021
DisQualified: Network Impact of Twitter’s Latest QAnon Enforcement
Graphika Team
Analysis of a QAnon network map produced by Graphika indicates that more than 60% of these Twitter accounts are no longer online. This network represents a set of 13,856 highly-connected accounts that were engaging with QAnon hashtags last spring; 8,859 of which are now inactive.
Read the full article hereWednesday December 23, 2020
Graphika Global Insights: COVID-19 Vaccination Misinformation
Erin McAweeney, Senior Research Analyst and Melanie Smith, Head of Analysis
In April 2020, Graphika published an inaugural report, The COVID-19 “Infodemic,” covering analysis of the global online conversation about the coronavirus pandemic from December 2019 through March 2020. At the time, we detailed how the COVID-19 pandemic had facilitated the convergence of health conspiracists, political conspiracists, and technology conspiracists on a global scale, while right-wing groups had played a significant role in creating and amplifying mis- and disinformation content.
Read the full article hereTuesday November 3, 2020
Graphika’s 24/7 ‘Peace Room’ Is Up And Running
Greg McCarriston
Graphika is deeply committed to doing our part to protect the integrity of the 2020 United States presidential election. To this end, we have joined the Election Integrity Partnership to detect and mitigate the impact of attempts to prevent or deter people from voting or to delegitimize election results.
Read the full article hereWednesday September 2, 2020
Q-Tips: Measuring the Mainstreaming of QAnon During the Pandemic
Erin McAweeney
Journalists and researchers alike have observed the undeniable growth of conspiratorial content during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their important work shows the increased volume and frequency of sharing QAnon content across social media platforms over the last seven months. To help complete the picture, the Graphika team developed a new set of methods leveraging network analysis, topic modeling, and cultural bridging to identify content, users, topics and hashtags that connect otherwise disconnected communities.
Read the full article hereWednesday August 26, 2020
Dracula’s Botnet
Ben Nimmo
A network of inauthentic Twitter accounts that exhibits strong signs of automated behavior has been amplifying the pro-China political spam network that Graphika has nicknamed “Spamouflage.” The accounts appear to be the work of a single entity, and all post apparently automated quotes from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”; as such, we call this “Dracula’s Botnet.”
Read the full article hereMonday August 24, 2020
Integrating Graph and Language Embedding Models—Graphika's Alex Ruch in Journal of Physics: Complexity
Gregory McCarriston
Can x2vec Save Lives? According to Graphika Labs team member Alex Ruch in his latest article published in the Journal of Physics: Complexity, the answer may be yes.
Read the full article hereWednesday June 3, 2020
Briefing: China, Iran, and Russia State Accounts on U.S. Protests
Ben Nimmo
State-controlled media outlets and official public diplomacy accounts in China, Iran, and Russia are focusing on the anti-racism protests in the United States, but they are primarily doing so in a way that furthers their existing narratives, rather than stoking American divisions.
Read the full article hereWednesday March 18, 2020
Pranksters or Foes? SMS-Based Crisis Disinformation
Camille Francois, Ben Nimmo
Previous viral SMS-based disinformation campaigns warn against mistaking online pranksters for foreign Russian trolls - and vice versa.
Read the full article hereMonday March 16, 2020
Leveraging the Contagion Monitor™ Analytical Tool to Uncover Trends Before They Hit
Graphika Team
Graphika’s Contagion Monitor™ analytical tool is a software solution that helps strategists collect and analyze social media data and generate sophisticated analytics to detect business relevant trends, gain more insights on emergent campaigns, and deliver exponential value for their brand.
Read the full article hereTuesday December 3, 2019
Graphika Report: UK Trade Leaks
Graphika Team
A new report from Graphika finds that operators keen to hide their identities disseminated leaked UK/US trade documents in a similar fashion to Russian operation “Secondary Infektion”, exposed in June 2019.
Read the full article hereThursday November 7, 2019
Deep Learning at Graphika: Scaling Network Maps with Heterogeneous Graph Embedding
Alexander Ruch, ABD, MPH, MA, MA
Deep learning models for heterogeneous graphs allow us to overcome traditional analytical limits to efficiently scale our work at Graphika to tens of millions of nodes with hundreds of millions of edges.
Read the full article hereMonday October 21, 2019
Graphika Report: The IRACopyPasta Campaign
Camille Francois, Ben Nimmo, C. Shawn Eib
On October 21, 2019, Facebook announced the takedown of 50 Instagram accounts posting about US social and political issues and the 2020 election. Facebook concluded that the operation “originated from Russia” and “showed some links to the Internet Research Agency (IRA)”, the Russian “troll farm” that previously targeted US audiences and the United States presidential election in 2016.
Read the full article hereWednesday September 25, 2019
Graphika Report: Spamouflage
Ben Nimmo, C. Shawn Eib, L. Tamora
An active and prolific, but ultimately low-impact, cross-platform political spam network in Chinese boosted attacks on the Hong Kong protesters by using hijacked or fake accounts on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook well into September 2019, an investigation by Graphika reveals.
Read the full article hereFriday August 23, 2019
Graphika welcomes industry expert Ben Nimmo to the team
Graphika Staff
As the Graphika team continues to attract world-class talent across technology, marketing and insights, we are thrilled to welcome a new, noteworthy hire to our leadership team. This month, Ben Nimmo joins our team as our first-ever Director of Investigations.
Read the full article hereThursday August 8, 2019
Hacking for the Greater Good: Empowering Technologists to Strengthen Digital Society
Graphika Staff
Camille François, Graphika’s Chief Innovation Officer visited Black Hat in Las Vegas to join a panel of experts discussing the intersection of technological advancement with the growing risks of cyber attacks and counter-applications.
Read the full article hereThursday August 1, 2019
Graphika Labs Summer Retreat 2019: Innovating for the Future
Graphika Staff
On July 12th, 2019, Graphika Labs held its inaugural retreat in Boston, MA. We gathered to discuss our focus for the next twelve months and are excited to announce the five core pillars of Graphika’s research in 2019-2020.
Read the full article hereTuesday June 25, 2019
Graphika Chief Innovation Officer Camille Francois Named as MIT Technology Review 2019 “Innovator Under 35”
Graphika Staff
Graphika's Chief Innovation Officer Camille Francois has been named to MIT Technology Review’s annual list of “Innovators Under 35” as a Visionary.
Read the full article hereTuesday June 4, 2019
The Desus and Mero Story
Vladamir Barash, Ph.D
One of the most elusive problems in social science is the prediction of hit phenomena — from transformative social movements to hit artists to virally marketed products. When Desus and Mero — a couple of comedians from the Bronx — got into a fight with DJ Envy, nobody knew that they were on the cusp of going viral, selling out a five-borough tour, and getting a show on Showtime — but Graphika was able to predict that one.
Read the full article hereIn the Media
This Former Google Exec Talked to the Social Media Trolls the Russians Paid to Influence Elections — Here’s What She Learned
(CNBC, Friday January 19, 2018)
Camille François, Graphika’s Chief Innovation Officer, shared first hand accounts of the stories of real troll farm workers and her own experience co-authoring a landmark report on Russian electoral influence operations for the Senate Select Intelligence Committee.
Watch the Full Interview HereRussian Trolls Used ‘Digital Marketing Best Practices’ to Sow Discord, Senate Reports Find
(AdWeek, Tuesday December 18, 2018)
The Russian troll farm responsible for running disinformation campaigns intended to influence the 2016 presidential election reached more people on Instagram than on Facebook, and Russian-government-linked accounts are still spreading disinformation on both of the platforms at even higher rates than before the 2016 presidential election.
Read the Full Story HereHere’s Proof that Russian-Backed Accounts Pushed the Nike Boycott
(Wired, Thursday September 27, 2018)
Graphika’s John Kelly, Ph.D contributed expert opinion about ongoing Russian disinformation campaigns that helped to amplify the anti-Nike sentiment during the boycott of the brand following the announcement of Colin Kaepernick as the face of a major Nike advertising campaign.
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