Latest Social-media-bots Podcast Episodes

UK/US Trade Document Leak Analysis

Smokescreen - December 16, 2019 18:00 - 18 minutes
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 discover...

Episode 5 - Social Media Bots Part 2: Trumps Fake Twitter Followers

Smokescreen - December 06, 2019 15:19 - 24 minutes
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]...

Episode 4 - Social Media Bots Part 1: Trumps Fake Twitter Followers

Smokescreen - July 19, 2017 17:32 - 41 minutes
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-...

Episode 3 - Nice Systems exposes verzion customer data, post-truth

Smokescreen - July 14, 2017 22:30 - 36 minutes
In this episode we do some technical analysis on the Verizon data exposure reporting. We also talk about a NYTimes article, "Evaluating Sources in a ‘Post-Truth’ World: Ideas for Teaching and Learning About Fake News".

Episode 2 - buying reddit upvotes

Smokescreen - July 13, 2017 23:59 - 30 minutes
Follow up on the recent bogus Guccifer2.0 analysis and look at how a PR firm 'hacked' reddit to generate 5 million page views. link to the google cache for the HackPR article: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rGmQFErEWB8J:www.hack-pr.com/library/how-we-hacked-reddit...

Episode 1 - Misinformation, Guccifer 2.0 & Ethereum Shills

Smokescreen - July 11, 2017 00:00 - 44 minutes
Found myself enraged at my news feeds this AM. Needed to get this stuff out. Exploring misinformation from source to social impact. In this first episode we look into some recent developments in the forensic analysis of the Guccifer2.0 DNC leaks and also discuss the wild disinformation ...