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Keyboard army using restaurant reviews to take on Russian state media

Rather than commenting on the food and service at Russian restaurants and cafes, some users have begun posting online reviews detailing Russian actions in Ukraine to try to smuggle information past the tight control of state media.
Source: reuters.com

Guide To Using Reverse Image Search For Investigations

"Guide To Using Reverse Image Search For Investigations - bellingcat: Reverse image search is one of the most well-known and easiest digital investigative techniques, with two-click functionality of choosing “Search Google for image” in many web browsers. This method has also seen widespread use...
Source: bellingcat.com

400,000 bots are posting political tweets about the election, and they have influence: Nearly 20 percent of all election-related

400,000 bots are posting political tweets about the election, and they have influence: Nearly 20 percent of all election-related tweets come from an army of influential robots.
Source: technologyreview.com

The scariest chart in Mary Meeker’s slide deck for newspapers has gotten even a tiny bit scarier: It's an annual moment

The scariest chart in Mary Meeker’s slide deck for newspapers has gotten even a tiny bit scarier: It's an annual moment of print realism here at Nieman Lab: The posting of the attention/advertising slide from Mary Meeker's state-of-the-Internet slide deck. It's enough of a tradition that I can now...
Source: niemanlab.org