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 ...

We’ve previously written about “tweet-less, picture-less,” computer-operated accounts or bots, that make one appear more popular—a.k.a. influential on social media—than one actually is. Recently, ...

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 Nigerian fan of Pete Buttigieg told multiple news outlets that he is the one behind a Twitter account that some believed to have been secretly operated by one of the former South Bend mayor’s top ...

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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 ...