Recently a campaign disseminate leaked UK/US Trade Documents was discovered that attempted to influence last weeks UK elections. In this episode we're going to explore the details of the campaign and how they closely resemble a disinformation c

Episode 5 - Social Media Bots Part 2: Trumps Fake Twitter Followers

Dec 6th, 2019 24m 33s

SmokeScreen is back! (for now) In this episode we follow up on Trumps fake followers and we're talking about the machine learning technique used to arrive at this number. Also talking about a social medias responsibility to address bots and spa

Episode 4 - Social Media Bots Part 1: Trumps Fake Twitter Followers

Jul 19th, 2017 41m 5s

In this episodes we discuss social bots and take a look at some recent (and not so recent) stories about Trump and his fake followers. show notes: http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-twitter-followers-fake-617873 https://fivethirtyeight.com/fe

Episode 3 - Nice Systems exposes verzion customer data, post-truth

Jul 14th, 2017 36m 3s

In this episode we do some technical analysis on the Verizon data exposure reporting. We also talk about a NYTimes article, "Evaluating Sources in a ‘Post-Truth’ World: Ideas for Teaching and Learning About Fake News".

Episode 2 - buying reddit upvotes

Jul 13th, 2017 30m 29s

Follow up on the recent bogus Guccifer2.0 analysis and look at how a PR firm 'hacked' reddit to generate 5 million page views.link to the google cache for the HackPR article: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rGmQFErEWB8J:

Episode 1 - Misinformation, Guccifer 2.0 & Ethereum Shills

Jul 11th, 2017 44m 37s

Found myself enraged at my news feeds this AM. Needed to get this stuff out. Exploring misinformation from source to social impact. In this first episode we look into some recent developments in the forensic analysis of the Guccifer2.0 DNC lea