Social Media and Politics

Detecting Disinformation, Fake Accounts, and Inauthentic Behavior on Social Media, with Dan Brahmy

Episode Summary

Dan Brahmy, Co-Founder and CEO at Cyabra, discusses the cutting-edge in disinformation monitoring and the detection of coordinated inauthentic behavior. Dan shares some of Cyabra's work around the new pope, the tariff war, and narratives following the Trump assassination attempt. We discuss how disinformation detection works technically, what type of attributes are used to classify accounts as inauthentic, and how source attribution can be identified through patterns.

Episode Notes

Dan Brahmy, Co-Founder and CEO at Cyabra, discusses the cutting-edge in disinformation monitoring. Dan shares some of Cyabra's work around the new pope, the tariff war, and narratives following the Trump assassination attempt. We discuss how monitoring works technically, what type of attributes are used to classify accounts as inauthentic, and how source attribution can be identified through patterns. 

Special thanks to Jill Burkes, PR and Communications lead at Cyabra, for setting up and contributing to the episode!  

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