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 ...

“Sock puppet” accounts, in the context of online book reviews, are fake forum, customer review or Twitter accounts that an author creates to promote his or her book under a different name. SL: I’ll go ...

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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 ...

Given how central social media networks have become to political life in Southeast Asia, it is no surprise that the region’s governments are trying to manipulate and control them. On October 8, ...

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 ...