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 ...

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 ...

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“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 ...

On October 8, Twitter announced that it had suspended 926 accounts based in Thailand, for partaking in coordinated information operations on behalf of the Thai military. In a post on its website, the ...

IT’S getting harder to trust what you read on Wikipedia. An army of shadowy fake accounts is manipulating the online encyclopedia’s entries for money and damaging the site’s credibility. Last month, ...