Category: Surveillance
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New Book: Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East
I am very excited to announce the publication of my new book, Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media – published by Hurst & Co. in the UK and Oxford University Press in the United States. Description You are being lied to by people who don’t even exist. Digital deception is…
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All 84 or so of my disinformation Twitter threads in one table!
A table of all my disinfo twitter threads
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The Gulf Information War| Propaganda, Fake News, and Fake Trends: The Weaponization of Twitter Bots in the Gulf Crisis
I am pleased to announce that I have published a new article in the International Journal of Communication. It’s open access and you can find it here. It is part of a special issue called The Gulf Information War and the Role of Media and Communication Technologies, edited by the great Banu Akdenizli and Ilhem…
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In Graphs: How pro-Saudi Twitter Bots Boost Donald Trump’s Ego (and his retweet count)
We know Donald Trump likes to tweet. Given his waning popularity, he probably needs those social media dopamine hits more than most of us. However, while Donald Trump’s actual popularity among living humans remains the stuff of intrigue, especially with accusations of various forms of electoral manipulation by Cambridge Analytica, the Russians, and bots, his…
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The PR Octopus & Its Incredibly Long Tentacles
3 weeks ago, a British PR and Strategic Communication firm called Dragon Associates forced the Guardian to take down an article from their Comment is Free section. Today the Guardian have put it back up. The article in question stated that the head of security at the BIC (Bahrain International Circuit) had been involved in…
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Hoax Journalist Liliane Khalil Returns, This Time as Habiba Dalal
Eminem once posed the question ‘Guess who’s back?’. The answer was of course, the Real Slim Shady. While it has so far been impossible to determine whether Liliane Khalil was slim or not, she was certainly shady. That’s assuming that she was actually a she. Anyway, it appears that Liliane Khalil is back on Twitter…
Marc Owen Jones 