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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Toby Muresianu works as a digital communications manager in Los Angeles, but on a recent morning he took on the job of internet sleuth. Muresianu, 40, was posting about politics on the social media ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Is the vehemently pro-Buttigieg account @easychinedu actually a staffer for the Democratic candidate trying to curry favor with minority voters? Or is it just the latest in a series of troll attacks ...

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For nearly two years I’ve enjoyed having a nice, get-right-to-the-point article on Wikipedia that describes me as an American journalist and mentions my book. Whenever I click on the article—as one ...