Facebook banned an Albanian troll farm supporting exiled Iranian militantsThe network had several 'hallmarks' of organized trolling, Facebook said.By K. Bell, 04.06.2021
Facebook reveals the AI tool it used to ban 6.6 billion fake accountsThe machine learning model retrains automatically to keep up with spammers.By C. Fisher, 03.04.2020
Twitter admits 'bad actors' exploited phone number matching featureIt says the fake accounts it suspended 'may have ties to state-sponsored actors.'By M. Moon, 02.03.2020
Alphabet subsidiary Jigsaw paid a Russian troll to spread disinformationThe experiment was meant to prove how easy it is to hire digital henchmen.By C. Fisher, 06.12.2019
Facebook has taken down over 2 billion fake accounts in 2019The company says it also disabled 1.2 billion in Q4 2018.By E. Alvarez, 05.23.2019