“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 ...

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 ...

The Justice Department said Tuesday it had uncovered and dismantled a Russian propaganda network with nearly 1,000 accounts pushing pro-Russia posts on the social media platform X. The accounts on X ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The lawsuit comes from former HBO executive assistant Sully Temori, who claims wrongful ...

A writer for The Spectator World had her account limited for writing an article confirming Elon Musk is not using a sock puppet account under the name Adrian Dittman. Journalist Jacqueline Sweet ...

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, ...