Podcasts by Smokescreen
Join me for a technical exploration of disinformation in a post truth world. From social media manipulation, to disinfo
Further podcasts by Zak Wolff
Podcast on the topic Technologie
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UK/US Trade Document Leak Analysis from 2019-12-16T11:00
Recently a campaign disseminate leaked UK/US Trade Documents was discovered that attempted to influence last weeks UK elections. In this episode we're going to explore the details of the campaig...
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Episode 5 - Social Media Bots Part 2: Trumps Fake Twitter Followers from 2019-12-06T08:19
SmokeScreen is back! (for now) In this episode we follow up on Trumps fake followers and we're talking about the machine learning technique used to arrive at this number. Also talking about a so...
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Episode 4 - Social Media Bots Part 1: Trumps Fake Twitter Followers from 2017-07-19T11:32
In this episodes we discuss social bots and take a look at some recent (and not so recent) stories about Trump and his fake followers. show notes: http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-twitter-fo...
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Episode 3 - Nice Systems exposes verzion customer data, post-truth from 2017-07-14T16:30:17
In this episode we do some technical analysis on the Verizon data exposure reporting. We also talk about a NYTimes article, "Evaluating Sources in a ‘Post-Truth’ World: Ideas for Teaching and Learn...
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Episode 2 - buying reddit upvotes from 2017-07-13T17:59:01
Follow up on the recent bogus Guccifer2.0 analysis and look at how a PR firm 'hacked' reddit to generate 5 million page views. link to the google cache for the HackPR article: http://webcache.goo...
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Episode 1 - Misinformation, Guccifer 2.0&Ethereum Shills from 2017-07-10T18:00
Found myself enraged at my news feeds this AM. Needed to get this stuff out. Exploring misinformation from source to social impact. In this first episode we look into some recent developments in t...
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