21st July 2017

University of Oxford/Bloomberg: Government 'cyber troops' manipulate Facebook, Twitter, study says

Online behavior of the government-backed groups varies widely, from commenting on Facebook and Twitter posts, to targeting people individually. Journalists are harassed by government groups in Mexico and Russia, while cyber troops in Saudi Arabia flood negative Twitter posts about the regime with unrelated content and hashtags to make it harder for people to find the offending post. In the Czech Republic, the government is more likely to post a fact-check response to something they see as inaccurate, said the report, Bloomberg writes.

Members of the American Chamber of Commerce in the Czech Republic