🧑‍💻📲📲🧑‍💻 ARTE just released its documentary on the "phone farm" phenomenon in Vietnam: industrial-scale online astroturfing enabled by specialized software providers and a market in hacked/boilerplate accounts. It features my and @marcowenjones' findings from our investigation last year of an influence operation that employed one of these outfits.
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjW-jdKpsw8 (👀 13:37)

#infops #phoneFarms #Vietnam #inauthentic #astroturfing #OSINT #TheQatarPlot #Meta #Facebook #platforms #socialMedia

🆕🕵️🧑‍💻📑 Comparison/contrast between my and @marcowenjones' original investigation of a Vietnam-proxied UK-/EU-/US-/…-targeted influence operation ("The Qatar Plot"), and Meta's recently-published report's section on it (paints it way bigger than we had estimated, but leaves out notable details too): [ https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1825912203045752965.html ]

#disinfo #infops #Facebook #Meta #socialMedia #Qatar #UK #US #EU #Europe #TheQatarPlot #Vietnam

🇬🇧🔥🎙 My thoughts on the role of online incentivized inauthentic inflammation of the ongoing UK anti-immigration riots, in an Al Jazeera English #InsideStory panel.
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnSRC1xpLvg

#UK #England #riots #Southport #immigration #propaganda #inauthentic #socialMedia #disinformation #TheQatarPlot