On Wednesday, Twitter announced a series of aggressive steps it would be taking over the next week to control the rapid rise of the QAnon conspiracy movement across its platform. Twitter has already suspended 7,000 …
At times of political crisis, the Chinese government has demonstrated a willingness to deploy disinformation and influence operations to achieve its strategic goals. The regime has mobilised a long-running campaign of political warfare against Taiwan, …
Since late August, an anonymous website has been publishing the personal details of pro-democracy protesters, journalists and politicians in Hong Kong. Building on our team’s earlier analysis of the state-backed information campaign targeting the Hong …
The ‘one-tweet hacker’ slipped through the fingers of law enforcement once more last week when the Australian Federal Police dropped its investigation into the alleged hacking of Liberal candidate Jessica Whelan’s Facebook account during the …
On Monday, Twitter and Facebook announced that they had taken down a network of accounts that were undertaking covert influence campaigns designed to undermine the protest movement in Hong Kong. In their statements, both companies …