“Sock puppets” are the scourge of online discussion . Multiple accounts controlled by the same user can dominate comment forums and spread fake news. But now there’s a way to unmask the puppeteers. A ...

Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram started out as a way to connect with friends, family and people of interest. But anyone on social media these days knows it’s increasingly a ...

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 ...

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The cable news network says "sock puppet" tweets came from a real-life person, while Tantaros' lawyer hits back by suggesting the filing is "smoking gun" evidence of something sinister. By Eriq ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Justice Department said Tuesday it had uncovered and dismantled a Russian propaganda network with nearly 1,000 accounts ...

A high-profile MAGA influencer on X with hundreds of thousands of followers has been exposed as being secretly run by a White ...

Last August, former Fox News anchor Andrea Tantaros filed suit against her erstwhile employer, memorably alleging that despite Fox News' promotion of traditional family values on air, "behind the ...