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Thursday April 17, 2025
Scams & Fraud: Social Engineering at Scale
The Graphika Team
Selected Insights from Graphika’s ATLAS Intelligence Reporting on Online Scams
Read the full Report hereThursday March 20, 2025
Chinese State Influence: Tariffs to Tension
The Graphika Team
Selected Insights from Graphika’s ATLAS Intelligence Reporting on Chinese State Influence Actors and Adjacent Communities
Read the full Report hereThursday March 13, 2025
Global Hacktivist Threats
The Graphika Team
Selected Insights From Graphika’s ATLAS Intelligence Reporting on Hacktivist Groups and Adjacent Communities
Read the full Report hereWednesday March 05, 2025
Character Flaws
Cristina López G., Daniel Siegel, Erin McAweeney
School Shooters, Anorexia Coaches, and Sexualized Minors: A Look at Harmful Character Chatbots and the Communities That Build Them
Read the full Report hereWednesday February 12, 2025
Looking for Love on All the Wrong Pages
Léa Ronzaud
Romance Scammers Masquerade as Celebrities and Lonely Singles to Ensnare and Deceive Online Love Seekers
Read the full Report hereWednesday January 29, 2025
Chinese State Influence
The Graphika Team
Selected Insights from Graphika’s ATLAS Intelligence Reporting on Chinese State Influence Actors and Adjacent Communities
Read the full Report hereTuesday December 10, 2024
Holiday Hoaxes Unwrapped: Fake Trees, Freebies, & Shopping Sprees
Léa Ronzaud, Jean le Roux
Scammers Orchestrate Cross-Platform Social Media Campaigns to Steal Money and Personal Information During Holiday Shopping Season
Read the full Report hereTuesday September 03, 2024
The #Americans
The Graphika Team
Chinese State-Linked Influence Operation Spamouflage Masquerades as U.S. Voters to Push Divisive Online Narratives Ahead of 2024 Election
Read the full Report hereWednesday February 14, 2024
Faltering on Facebook, Ignored on Instagram
Eugene Imas, Rodrigo Ferreira, and Avneesh Chandra
Examining the Activities of Russian State-Controlled Media on Meta Platforms Two Years After the Invasion of Ukraine
Read the full Report hereWednesday December 13, 2023
Agitate the Debate
The Graphika Team
Inauthentic Accounts Pose as Taiwanese Users to Spread Political Memes and Videos Ahead of 2024 Election
Read the full Report hereFriday December 08, 2023
A Revealing Picture
Santiago Lakatos
AI-Generated ‘Undressing’ Images Move from Niche Pornography Discussion Forums to a Scaled and Monetized Online Business
Read the full Report hereThursday September 28, 2023
Rumores Renovables (ESP)
Cristina López G. y Santiago Lakatos
Análisis del ecosistema en línea de las comunidades hispanohablantes que se oponen a las iniciativas de energía renovable
Read the full Report hereThursday September 28, 2023
Rumores Renovables
Cristina López G. and Santiago Lakatos
Analyzing the Online Ecosystem of Spanish-Speaking Communities Opposed to Renewable Energy Initiatives
Read the full Report hereMonday August 21, 2023
Summit Old, Summit New
Léa Ronzaud, Joseph A. Carter, and Tyler Williams
Russia-Linked Actors Leverage New and Old Tactics in Influence Operations Targeting Online Conversations About NATO Summit
Read the full Report hereWednesday April 12, 2023
Now We Got Bad Blood
Cristina López G. & Avneesh Chandra
Exploring Harassment Dynamics Within the Online Taylor Swift Fandom
Read the full Report hereThursday February 23, 2023
How to Lose Influence and Alienate People
Avneesh Chandra & Rodrigo Ferreira
Examining the Activities of Russian State-Controlled Media on Facebook and Instagram One Year After the Invasion of Ukraine
Read the full Report hereTuesday February 07, 2023
Deepfake It Till You Make It
The Graphika Team
Pro-Chinese Actors Promote AI-Generated Video Footage of Fictitious People in Online Influence Operation
Read the full Report hereTuesday December 13, 2022
Bad Reputation
Graphika & The Stanford Internet Observatory
Suspected Russian Actors Leverage Alternative Tech Platforms in Continued Effort to Covertly Influence Right-Wing U.S. Audiences
Read the full Report hereThursday October 13, 2022
Los Eco-Ilógicos (En Español)
Por Cristina López G. y Santiago Lakatos
Una Mirada Dentro de la Extensa Red en Línea que Difunde Desinformación Sobre el Cambio Climático a las Comunidades de Habla Hispana en Todo el Mundo
Read the full Report hereWednesday October 12, 2022
Los Eco-Ilógicos
Cristina López G. and Santiago Lakatos
A Look Inside the Sprawling Online Network that Spreads Climate Misinformation to Spanish-Speaking Communities Around the World
Read the full Report hereWednesday August 24, 2022
Unheard Voice
Graphika & Stanford Internet Observatory
Evaluating Five Years of Pro-Western Covert Influence Operations
Read the full Report hereWednesday August 10, 2022
Free Money & Pig Butchers: Crypto Fraud and Scams on Social Media
Read the full Report here
Thursday April 07, 2022
Slash and Burner Accounts
The Graphika Team
Navigating a forest of fake friends, faces, and followers used to target Brazilian audiences and environmental groups during the pandemic
Read the full Report hereWednesday December 01, 2021
Viral Vendetta
The Graphika Team
Inside the conspiratorial movement waging a cross-platform 'psychological warfare' campaign against Covid-19 vaccine advocates
Read the full Report hereMonday October 11, 2021
Likes for Lorestan
Jack Stubbs, Léa Ronzaud, Kyle Weiss, Avneesh Chandra, Rodrigo Ferreira, and Ira Hubert
Unraveling a Decade of Iran-Linked Information Operations Targeting Domestic Audiences and International Critics
Read the full Report hereTuesday September 07, 2021
Weaponized Social Media: The New Brand Reputation Challenge
Read the full Report here
Thursday July 22, 2021
Hammering Hirak
Ira Hubert, C. Shawn Eib, and the Graphika Team
Exposing a Multi-Year Effort to Manipulate Algeria’s Online Political Discourse and Suppress Dissident Voices
Read the full Report hereMonday June 07, 2021
Posing as Patriots
The Graphika Team
Graphika Exposes an Active Campaign by Suspected Russian Actors to Covertly Target Far-Right U.S. Audiences on Alternative Platforms
Read the full Report hereThursday June 03, 2021
Lights, Camera, Coordinated Action!
Léa Ronzaud, Ira Hubert, C. Shawn Eib, Avneesh Chandra, Jack Stubbs, Lotus Ruan, Joseph Carter
A Network of Fake Media Outlets Paid Actors and Journalists to Spread Political Narratives Supporting Pakistan’s Government and Military
Read the full Report hereMonday May 17, 2021
Ants in a Web
Deconstructing Guo Wengui's Online 'Whistleblower Movement'
Read the full Report hereTuesday April 06, 2021
Coordinated Inauthentic Bee-havior
Jack Stubbs, C. Shawn Eib
The Thin Line Between Marketing and Political Propaganda: How an Egyptian Firm Ran Fake News Pages Targeting Ethiopia, Sudan and Turkey
Read the full Report hereThursday February 04, 2021
Spamouflage Breakout
Ben Nimmo, Ira Hubert and Yang Cheng
Chinese Spam Network Finally Starts to Gain Some Traction
Read the full Report hereThursday January 28, 2021
Fake Cluster Boosts Huawei
Graphika Team
Accounts with GAN Faces Attack Belgium over 5G Restrictions
Read the full Report hereTuesday January 12, 2021
Echoes of Fake News
Ben Nimmo, Léa Ronzaud and C. Shawn Eib
Facebook Downs Assets Linked to Deceptive Websites Run from Separatist-Held Ukraine, First Reported by Die Welt and Netzpolitik
Read the full Report hereTuesday December 15, 2020
More-Troll Kombat
Graphika & The Stanford Internet Observatory
French and Russian Influence Operations Go Head to Head Targeting Audiences in Africa
Read the full Report hereFriday November 06, 2020
Capture the Flag
Léa Ronzaud, Ira Hubert, Ben Nimmo
Iranian Operators Impersonate Anti-Netanyahu "Black Flag" Protesters, Amplify Iranian Narratives
Read the full Report hereTuesday October 27, 2020
The Case of the Inauthentic Reposting Activists
Ben Nimmo, Camille François, C. Shawn Eib, Léa Ronzaud
Inauthentic Bilingual Network Targeting Feminism, Black Lives Matter, and Hispanic Communities in the U.S.
Read the full Report hereThursday October 22, 2020
Myanmar Inauthentic Behavior Takedown
Léa Ronzaud, C. Shawn Eib, Camille François, Avneesh Chandra, Victoire Rio and Myat Thu
Multiple Clusters of Pages and Websites Pushed Large-Scale Clickbait, Small Volume of Political Content
Read the full Report hereThursday October 15, 2020
House Intelligence Committee Hearing on Misinformation and Conspiracy Theories Online
Melanie Smith
Statement of Record by Melanie Smith, Graphika
Read the full Report hereThursday October 08, 2020
Myanmar Military Network
Ben Nimmo, Léa Ronzaud, C. Shawn Eib, Rodrigo Ferreira
Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Traced to Members of Myanmar Military Before Elections
Read the full Report hereThursday October 01, 2020
Step into My Parler
Graphika Team
Suspected Russian Operation Targeted Far-Right American Users on Platforms Including Gab and Parler, Resembled Recent IRA-Linked Operation that Targeted Progressives
Read the full Report hereThursday September 24, 2020
GRU and the Minions
Ben Nimmo, Camille Francois, C. Shawn Eib, Léa Ronzaud and Joseph Carter
Further Exposures of Russian Military Assets Across Platforms, 2013-2020
Read the full Report hereTuesday September 22, 2020
Operation Naval Gazing
Ben Nimmo, C. Shawn Eib, Léa Ronzaud
Facebook Takes Down Inauthentic Chinese Network
Read the full Report hereTuesday September 01, 2020
IRA Again: Unlucky Thirteen
Ben Nimmo, Camille François, C Shawn Eib, Léa Ronzaud
Facebook Takes Down Small, Recently Created Network Linked to Internet Research Agency
Read the full Report hereTuesday August 25, 2020
Detecting Digital Fingerprints: Tracing Chinese Disinformation in Taiwan
Nick Monaco (IFTF), Melanie Smith (Graphika), and Amy Studdart (IRI)
Read the full Report here
Monday August 24, 2020
Interpreting Social Qs: Implications of the Evolution of QAnon
Melanie Smith
Read the full Report here
Wednesday August 12, 2020
Spamouflage Goes to America
Pro-Chinese Inauthentic Network Debuts English-Language Videos
Read the full Report hereThursday August 06, 2020
Truth Media, Fake Profiles
Facebook Takes Down Inauthentic Network Associated with Truth Media
Read the full Report hereWednesday July 15, 2020
Misinformation in the Fog of Tear Gas
Ben Nimmo and C. Shawn Eib, Graphika
A Play by Play of How the #DCblackout Hashtag Spread, and Spread Fear
Read the full Report hereWednesday July 08, 2020
Facebook’s Roger Stone Takedown
Graphika Team
Facebook Removes Inauthentic Network Attributed to Political Operative
Read the full Report hereWednesday July 08, 2020
Postmen, Knocked
Graphika Team
Facebook Takes Down Inauthentic Network in Ukraine Tied to PR firm
Read the full Report hereTuesday June 16, 2020
Exposing Secondary Infektion
Ben Nimmo, Camille François, C. Shawn Eib, Lea Ronzaud, Rodrigo Ferreira, Chris Hernon, and Tim Kostelancik
Forgeries, Interference, and Attacks on Kremlin Critics Across Six Years and 300 Sites and Platforms
Read the full Report hereFriday June 05, 2020
Facebook’s Kurdistan Takedown
Ben Nimmo, C. Shawn Eib, Léa Ronzaud, and Thomas Lederer, Graphika
Platform takes down inauthentic network in Iraqi region
Read the full Report hereTuesday May 05, 2020
Facebook’s VDARE Takedown
Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Boosted VDARE and Unz Review
Read the full Report hereTuesday May 05, 2020
Iran’s Broadcaster: Inauthentic Behavior
Ben Nimmo, C. Shawn Eib, Léa Ronzaud, Rodrigo Ferreira, Thomas Lederer, Melanie Smith
Facebook Takes Down Covert Assets Linked To State Broadcaster
Read the full Report hereFriday April 24, 2020
Return of the (Spamouflage) Dragon
Ben Nimmo, Camille François, C. Shawn Eib, Léa Ronzaud
Pro-Chinese Spam Network Tries Again
Read the full Report hereTuesday April 21, 2020
The COVID-19 “Infodemic”
The Graphika Team
A Preliminary Analysis of the Online Conversation Surrounding the Coronavirus Pandemic
Read the full Report hereWednesday April 15, 2020
Iran’s IUVM Turns To Coronavirus
Ben Nimmo, Camille François, C. Shawn Eib, Léa Ronzaud
Long-Running Iranian Influence Operation Returns to Social Media with Anti-US and Pro-China Messaging
Read the full Report hereThursday March 12, 2020
IRA in Ghana: Double Deceit
Ben Nimmo, Camille François, C. Shawn Eib, Léa Ronzaud, Melanie Smith, Thomas Lederer, Joseph A. Carter, Erin McAweeney.
Russian operation linked to former IRA associates employed social media users in Ghana to target black communities in the US
Read the full Report hereMonday March 02, 2020
Operation Red Card
Ben Nimmo, Camille Francois, C. Shawn Eib, L. Tamora
An Indian PR Firm Created Inauthentic Accounts and Used Coordinated Behavior to Post Anti-Saudi, Anti-Emirati, Pro-Qatar, and Football-Related Content
Read the full Report hereWednesday February 12, 2020
From Russia With Blogs
Ben Nimmo, Camille François, C. Shawn Eib, L. Tamora
GRU Operators Leveraged Blogs, Social Media Accounts and Private Messaging to Reach Audiences Across Europe
Read the full Report hereFriday December 20, 2019
#OperationFFS: Fake Face Swarm
Ben Nimmo, C. Shawn Eib, L. Tamora, Kate Johnson, Ian Smith from Graphika; Eto Buziashvili, Alyssa Kann, Kanishk Karan, Esteban Ponce de León Rosas, Max Rizzuto from DFRLab
Facebook Takes Down Network Tied to Epoch Media Group That Used Mass AI-Generated Profiles
Read the full Report hereTuesday December 17, 2019
UK Trade Leaks and Secondary Infektion
Ben Nimmo, Director of Investigations
New Findings and Insights from a Known Russian Operation
Read the full Report hereMonday December 02, 2019
UK Trade Leaks - Updated 12.8.19
Ben Nimmo, Director of Investigations
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 Report hereMonday October 21, 2019
The IRA CopyPasta Campaign
Camille Francois, Ben Nimmo, C. Shawn Eib
Russian Accounts Posing as Americans on Instagram Targeted Both Sides of Polarizing Issues Ahead of the 2020 Election
Read the full Report hereWednesday September 25, 2019
Spamouflage
Ben Nimmo, C. Shawn Eib, L. Tamora
Cross-Platform Spam Network Targeted Hong Kong Protests
Read the full Report here