A few months back Chris and Joel shared assets linked to the network with me and my former research assistant Gaute Friis.
What makes the network Reuters discovered different is that it spread falsehoods to reduce trust in Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccines among people in Southeast Asia, which could have plausibly led to COVID deaths.
The op we analyzed involved astroturfing by fake accounts, for example accounts pretending to be Iranians criticizing the Iranian government’s treatment women. While the network shared some falsehoods, the overwhelming majority of the posts were non-falsifiable astroturfing content.
Back in 2022, together with Graphika, the Stanford Internet Observatory analyzed an info op that has since been attributed to the US miliary cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/sio-...
Stanford Internet Observatory collaborated with Graphika to analyze a large network of accounts removed from Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter in our latest report. This information operation likely or...
New important reporting today from Chris Bing and Joel Schectman at Reuters reveals another covert influence operation on social media run by the US military.
Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic www.reuters.com/investigates...
The covert effort began under Trump and continued into Biden’s presidency, Reuters found. Health experts say it endangered lives for possible geopolitical gain.
Thanks to @hyemin.bsky.social at Lawfare for great edits.
There are people who read every word of our 84 page report, & it's been very gratifying to hear from them. But if you aren't in that group, @riana.bsky.social@sarashah19.bsky.social & I wrote this piece for Lawfare. It highlights CyberTipline challenges from the perspective of law enforcement.
Why isn’t CyberTipline, the reporting mechanism for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in the U.S., working as well as it should? @shelbygrossman.bsky.social, Riana Pfefferkorn, and @sarashah19.bsky.social explain and make recommendations for potential solutions.
How to improve the system for reporting child sex abuse material online.
Great coverage on our report from @mmasnick.bsky.social
I wrote two separate posts about @stanfordio.bsky.social's new report about NCMEC's cybertipline. It's a fascinating report that really details the screwed up incentives (from all angles) that make it so difficult to deal with the widespread problem of CSAM online. www.techdirt.com/2024/04/25/t...
The failures of the NCMEC CyberTipline to combat child sexual abuse material (CSAM) as well as it could are extremely frustrating. But as you look at the details, you realize there just aren’t any …
SIO's report on the NCMEC CyberTipline pipeline is out today, the result of almost a year of work. There are a lot of findings for improving the ecosystem from platforms to NCMEC to government to law enforcement.
A new Stanford Internet Observatory report examines how to improve the CyberTipline pipeline from dozens of interviews with tech companies, law enforcement and the nonprofit that runs the U.S. online ...
NEW REPORT: The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Online Child Safety Ecosystem: Perspectives from Platforms, NCMEC, and Law Enforcement on the CyberTipline and How to Improve It
A new Stanford Internet Observatory report examines how to improve the CyberTipline pipeline from dozens of interviews with tech companies, law enforcement and the nonprofit that runs the U.S. online ...