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Meet @JaredLCarter (permanent ID 150677979), a "Cyber Security PhD" with a GAN-generated profile pic and a blue verification checkmark.(GAN = "generative adversarial network", the AI technology behind the fake face

Here's an interesting account. @GregRubini is a stalwart US citizen who spreads a veritable buffet of conspiracy theories involving anything and everything from space travel, 9/11, Syria, Novichok, and the

Math > propaganda:• 576238 US COVID deaths / 32356034 cases = 1 in 56• 3700 deaths on VAERS / 149462265 US residents who received at least one vaccine dose =

How does one find bot/sock networks? One technique that sometimes bears fruit is to gather a bunch of tweets with some common characteristic (in this example, Turkish tweet sent with

Are these spammy replies from accounts with cat avatars some mysterious form of feline communication? Nope, it's another botnet, and the cats are fake (GAN-generated, similar to those produced by

It's a great day to look at a network of #SEO/#DigitalMarketing spam accounts with GAN-generated profile pics. #SEOShenaniGAN(GAN = "generative adversarial network, the AI technique behind the fake faces generated

None of these cats exist. All are GAN-generated images obtained from https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com . Can we come up with a way to detect GAN-generated cat pics? #CaturdayShenaniGANs(GAN = "generative adversarial network", t

We've done a decent amount of research on the use of GAN-generated images over the last two years, mostly fake face "photos" such as those produced by thispersondoesnotexist(dot)com. Here are

We took a look at nine days' worth of recent replies to @JoeBiden. Unsurprisingly, the Democratic nominee's account gets a lot of attention - 613039 replies from 266655 accounts between

Just for fun, we started digging through the accounts followed by 60 popular verified #MAGA accounts to see what there is to see. We found one weird thing that stuck

Meet @bmjisoo, a self-described Events & Program Manager, Adventurous Foodie, Global Trotter, and National Park Explorer. Based on its flurry of recent pro-Trump and anti-Biden retweets, it would at first

We've done a decent amount of digging into various bulk follow botnets over the last couple of years, and decided to aggregate all of our threads on the topic. Some