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Jul 8, 2021 • 12 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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We have a new report on a network that Facebook found & suspended, attributed to individuals associated with Jordanian military. The network had a small presence on TikTok & leveraged Clubhouse discussions. 🧵⤵️

🔗cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/jordan…
Substantively, the network praised Jordan’s King Abdullah II and the country’s military.
We found 3 TikTok accounts tied to the network. We think this is the 1st known case of TikTok coordinated inauthentic behavior, but it was anti-climatic. The accounts re-posted content from Jordanian Air Force TikTok fan accounts & had low engagement & few followers.
Facebook network assets shared a video which played a recording from a Clubhouse chat about Prince Hamzah, a royal family member who fell out of favor with the King. The video accused foreigners of using Clubhouse as part of “fourth generation social media warfare.”
The network shared other original videos. Many bolstered the state-supported narrative that Basem Awadallah and Prince Hamzah collaborated to destabilize the country.
After Prince Hamzah was arrested in early April, the government banned people from discussing the investigation. We saw a spike in posting during this media blackout, with posts praising the government.
Many posts seems designed to reduce support for ISIS among young people in Jordan, with videos criticizing ISIS’ interpretation of Islam. Note: The network was suspended due to the reliance on fake accounts, not due to the content of the posts.
The network shared posts to out-of-network Groups...sometimes fairly conspicuously.
And oddly several of the suspended profiles had photos of Nick Offerman from his role as Ron Swanson on Parks & Rec.
Last, while we didn’t have visibility into this aspect of the network, Facebook reports that the network was used to harass dissidents.
These reports are a group effort by our hard working @stanfordio team. This report is authored by @shelbygrossman, @elenacryst, @noupside, K.H., @carlymil, @RajeevNSharma, @ChaseSmall5, & @ladya7823.

github.com/stanfordio/pub…
Report from @fbnewsroom ⤵️
about.fb.com/news/2021/07/j…

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📢OUT TODAY: Today we are publishing a report analyzing a suspended Twitter network that likely originated in India. 🧵⤵️

🔗cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/india-… Image
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📢 Out Today: SIO Fellow @mastersonmv & team (Jenni DePew, Katie Jonsson, @ShelbyAPerkins and @0xAA5A) release two reports on the 2020 election & how to secure elections in an information distortion ecosystem actively undermining elections 🧵⤵️ /1
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Feb 13, 2021
📢 我们Tech team 和 China and Tech research teams今天新发表的研究成果: 我们研究了@joinClubhouse app’s 数据安全措施和中国大陆用户的潜在风险.
 
🔗 cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/clubho…
 
以下是我们的发现👋🧵⤵️

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1. AgoraIO, 一家位于上海的初创企业，一般被猜测为Clubhouse提供了后端平台

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2. @joinClubhouse用户ID（而不是用户名，更像是唯一的序列号）是通过Internet以纯文本格式传输的，因此很容易被拦截。聊天室ID（再次不是房间名称，更像是序列号）也以明文形式传输。 

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Feb 13, 2021
📢 New work out today from our Tech team & China research team: @joinClubhouse app recently became popular in 🇨🇳. We looked at its data security practices & found a potential risk to mainland Chinese users.

🔗 cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/clubho…

Here are our key findings 👋🧵⤵️

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(1) .@AgoraIO, a Shanghai-based startup, provides the backend platform to Clubhouse. This has been widely suspected.

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(2) .@joinClubhouse user IDs (not their username — more like a unique serial number) are transmitted in plaintext over the internet, making them trivial to intercept. Chatroom IDs (again, more like serial number) also transmitted in plaintext.

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1/ 📢 Out Today: A new report on the contours of Parler. Our team examines growth dynamics (non) moderation policies, and platform growth in 🇧🇷 and 🇸🇦 .

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cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/sio-pa…
2/ Our analysis pulled data from three snapshots of Parler’s roughly 29 months online. We looked at metrics from the API to map join dates and linguistic patterns on the site.
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