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29 Jul, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Today my team and @jeffhancock are announcing a new journal: The Journal of Online Trust and Safety. cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/announ…
We hope this journal will become a home for cutting-edge research on how internet services are abused to cause harm, and how to address these harms. These will be our priority areas:
We have an incredible editorial board, with leading researchers from communication, computer science, criminology, law, political science, psychology, and more.
Emulating successful practices from @journalqd, we will encourage letters of inquiry. If the response to the letter is positive, the full article will likely be sent out for review. There is no word count min or max, and no formatting requirements for initial submission.
This will be a fast review journal - reviewers will have two weeks to submit reviews (to make this work, we will compensate reviewers) and authors will have two weeks to revise.
Submission details are here: fsi-live.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/do…

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CW: Suicide and self-harm
Last week we published a report on self-harm policies on internet platforms. We gave Reddit a low rating, as we could not find any policies that referenced self-harm or suicide. cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/self-harm-p…
Reddit reached out on this, sending us a link to a blog post outlining their approach to self-harm. It is very thoughtful:  redditblog.com/2020/03/04/red…
In our ratings, we only counted policies that appeared in the platforms' main policy documents. For example, we did not give Instagram credit for a similarly thoughtful policy outlined in a blog post, as we worried users might not come across it. about.instagram.com/blog/announcem…
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6 Nov 20
🇮🇷🇦🇫 Tonight Facebook announced that they suspended a network that originated in Afghanistan and Iran and targeted Farsi/Dari speakers in Afghanistan. My Stanford Internet Observatory team has a report on this network here: cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/novemb…
This network was suspended not due to the content of its posts, but rather for coordinated inauthentic behavior; fake profiles were central to the operation.
This operation was novel in that it was oriented toward women, including promoting women’s rights. 53% percent of the Instagram accounts had profile photos of women (compared to 11% with photos of men), and the network shared stories about the educational success of women.
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6 Nov 20
📑 Today Facebook announced the takedown of a Muslim Brotherhood-linked network. With so many disinfo ops linked to Saudi Arabia/UAE/Egypt, it’s interesting to have a network from the other side. Here is SIO’s report, co-authored with @maffsyy & @k_ramali cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/novemb…
This network was suspended not due to the content of its posts, but rather for coordinated inauthentic behavior; fake profiles were central to the operation.
This was a complex cross-platform operation with a substantial audience. The Facebook Pages we looked at had almost 1.5 million followers. There were Twitter accounts & YouTube & Telegram channels. Here are accounts linked to one anti-UAE Page:
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8 Oct 20
🇸🇦Today Twitter announced the takedown of 33 accounts linked to the government of Saudi Arabia. Buckle up for this one 🎢 it’s not your standard “Qatar is the worst” Saudi disinfo operation. Here’s our report: cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/news/twitter-t…
The network had “Royal Sockpuppets”, 👑🧦 fake accounts for real dissident Qatari Royals living in Saudi. The biggest account, pretending to be Fahad bin Abdullah Al-Thani, had >1mil followers. There were also accounts pretending to be an exiled Qatari interim govt. Image
How did these accounts get such big followings? It’s hard to say, for two reasons. First, many of the accounts engaged in handle switching. The now-suspended @QtrGov was not always @QtrGov - its mentions only go back a few months even though it has existed for years.
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8 Oct 20
🇳🇬Today Facebook announced the removal of a network of accounts run by the Islamic Movement in Nigeria. My Stanford Internet Observatory team analyzed the network before it was taken down. Our report: cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/news/islamic-m…
The network was suspended not because of the content of the posts, but rather because the Facebook Pages and Groups were run by fake accounts. Facebook calls this coordinated inauthentic behavior.
The Facebook Pages and Groups advocated for the release of IMN leader Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky.
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1 Sep 20
🇵🇰Today Facebook announced the suspension of a big network of accounts in Pakistan for coordinated inauthentic behavior. My Internet Observatory team analyzed the network before it came down. The most interesting part of the network? Mass reporting. cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/report…
The network found accounts they perceived to be critical of Islam or Pakistan & pushed links to Groups & Pages that took users directly to Facebook’s site to report an account. They even included instructions on how to open dozens of tabs simultaneously to expedite reporting. 💻
They boasted of successes frequently, but we can’t confirm whether these accounts were taken down due to reporting. Some targeted accounts had intentionally insulting fake names which were clearly in violation of Facebook's policies.
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