The Bureau of Investigative Journalism Exposing injustice | Sparking change
Search The Bureau Website
Stories
Explore
Global Health Big Tech Environment The Enablers Family Court Files Global Superbugs All Investigations… Bureau Local Open Resources News
About Us
Our Mission Impact Our People Use Our Work Our Funding Fact-checking at TBIJ The Trust for TBIJ Employment
Newsletter Support Us Search
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Articles tagged with "Influence operations"

07.03.25

Big Tech

Trump is giving Russian cyber ops a free pass – and putting western democracy on the line

The Kremlin has long sought to sow chaos using ‘information confrontation’. That job just got a lot easier

08.01.25

Big Tech

Zuckerberg and Musk have shown that Big Tech doesn’t care about facts

With tech titans openly disregarding the truth ahead of Trump’s second term, 2025 is likely to herald a new era of disinformation

14.08.24

Big Tech

Meta has pulled the plug on CrowdTangle. Here’s what it means for users – and for everyone else

The social media giant has received praise for supporting a vital transparency tool. Not any more

06.08.24

Big Tech

Bomb-making instructions and calls for genocide circulate on far-right messaging channels

Telegram groups used during week of riots contain incitements to violence and death threats to public figures

06.07.24

Big Tech

Russian disinformation networks ramp up attacks on European elections

Two sets of sites pushing Russian misinformation grew rapidly in the run up to this week’s votes in the UK and France

26.06.24

Big Tech

How I uncovered a network of Reform-linked Facebook groups

After months of trawling social media and logging spreadsheets, we found a story that shows the alarming proximity of ‘fringe’ views to mainstream politics

26.06.24

Big Tech

Hate speech and climate denial: inside the Facebook network run by Reform candidates

Groups boast more than 60,000 members and have been used as a recruiting ground for Reform despite bearing no official links to the party

14.06.24

Big Tech

Save the Shire: veteran Tory aide enlisted by ‘grassroots’ anti-solar campaign

Local push to protect Worcestershire farmland has hired longtime Boris Johnson adviser and cost upwards of £10,000

05.06.24

Big Tech

Doctored footage and hijacked accounts: anatomy of a deepfake scam network

AI-edited videos of Starmer and Sunak evaded social media rules and cheated people out of money

05.06.24

Big Tech

Deepfakes and their threat to global democracy

With 2bn people heading to the polls this year, regulators must keep pace with new strategies of deception

05.06.24

Big Tech

Facebook failed to block thousands of political ads peddling false information

Concerns raised over platform’s ability to curb misinformation as major elections loom

07.03.24

What is a deepfake – and how are they being used by scammers?

AI-generated imitations come in different forms and are increasingly hard to tell apart from the real thing

29.11.23

Environment

Pro-meat misinformation rife on social media, says report

Almost a million posts have been found to spread false or misleading information about meat, dairy and alternative diets

24.11.23

Big Tech

Viral campaign attacking pro-Palestine movement points to gaps in Meta rules

Videos by Facts for Peace have amassed millions of views but make no mention of ultimate funder

04.10.23

Big Tech

What is the 15-minute cities conspiracy theory?

False conspiracy theories around 15-minute cities see a secret plot behind the proposals to place draconian restrictions on the movement of citizens

A graphic composite of a social media post, a microphone and people protesting

27.07.23

Big Tech

What are influence operations and why are we investigating them?

Attempts to manipulate voters threaten elections around the world. So we’re launching a new project to help you understand how you could be targeted

Projects

Environment Local Power Big Tech The Enablers Global Health Family Court Files All Projects

Got a Story?

For Journalists Contacting the Bureau How to Talk to a Journalist

About

About Us Contact Us Use Our Work Our Funding Financials Awards Privacy Policy The Trust for TBIJ Employment Complaints Corrections

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism PO Box 76421 London EC2P 2SH

Email: [email protected]

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

✕

Corporations

  • Binary Options
  • Corporate Watch
  • Fixed-Odds Betting Machines
  • High Cost Credit
  • High Frequency Trading
  • Smoke Screen

Food and Drugs

  • Big Tobacco

Justice

  • Deaths in Police Custody
  • Family Court Files
  • Investigating Rape
  • Joint Enterprise
  • Rough Justice

Human Rights

  • CIA Torture
  • Citizenship Revoked
  • Drone Warfare
  • Iraq War Logs
  • Marikana Massacre
  • Migration Crisis
  • Privatised War
  • Shadow Wars
  • Surveillance State
  • Trapped in work

PR and Spin

  • Fake News
  • Lobbying’s Hidden Influence

State Scrutiny

  • Care Sector
  • Europe Under Scrutiny
  • Health
  • Political Party Funding
  • Public Sector Pay
  • Royal Mail
  • Rulers’ Riches
  • Scrutinising Government
  • Teaching
  • The Enablers

Bureau Local

  • Local Stories
  • Open Resources
  • Cost of living crisis
  • Domestic Violence
  • Homelessness
  • Is Work Working?
  • Local Power
  • The Housing Crisis
  • The People’s Newsroom
  • UK Elections