Smokescreen

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 campaign dubbed Secondary Infektion discovered earlier this year by Facebook.   

https://graphika.com/reports/UK-trade-leaks/
https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsecurity/comments/e74nml/suspected_campaign_from_russia_on_reddit/

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 spam. Some relevant links and show notes:
[1] https://languages.oup.com/word-of-the-year/word-of-the-year-2016
[2] https://sparktoro.com/blog/we-analyzed-every-twitter-account-following-donald-trump-61-are-bots-spam-inactive-or-propaganda/ 

[3] https://sparktoro.com/blog/sparktoros-new-tool-to-uncover-real-vs-fake-followers-on-twitter/ 

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning 

[5] http://www.ijmlc.org/vol7/646-LC0022.pdf
[6] G. Saptarshi, K. Gautam, and G. Niloy, “Spammers' networks within online social networks: A case-study on Twitter,” in Proc.World Wide Web Conference 2011, Hyderabad, 2011.

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/features/everyone-has-fake-twitter-followers-but-trump-has-the-most-sad/ http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/billionaire-gop-patron-behind-trump-social-media-bot-army-article-1.3236933 https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/twitters-pro-trump-bot-crisis-is-really-a-human-crisis?utm_term=.twaW76dGW#.shrmvJ6ym https://www.twitteraudit.com/ https://fakers.statuspeople.com/Fakers/FindOutMore/ https://www.technologyreview.com/s/529461/how-to-spot-a-social-bot-on-twitter/ https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.03107.pdf http://botornot.co/ http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/28/how-i-learned-to-game-twitter