Resources
The Media Forensics Hub has collected some resources that might be useful to scholars, students, and the public who are interested in understanding and documenting the context around media.
Tools
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Facebook
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Crowdtangle Plug-In: Allows user to see how often a link has been shared, where it has been shared, and post associated.
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Facebook Engagement Tracking: Track URL Shares, Likes, etc.
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Reddit
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Reddit Search Tool: Reddit post and user search tool
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Reddit User Lookup and History: Download and graph Reddit comment history
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Reddit User Lookup and History: Reddit post and user search tool
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Twitter
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Botometer: Checks the activity of a Twitter account and gives it a score based on how likely the account is to be a bot.
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Hoaxy: Visualizes the spread of articles online.
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Tweetbeaver: Twitter account research tool.
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Twitonomy: Twitter account analytics and management.
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twXplorer: Explore what is trending on Twitter.
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AV Media: Reverse Image Lookup Tools
- Google Image (Click the Camera): Searches Google with an image instead of text.
- Tin Eye: Search recognition company that compiles numerous search engines to search from an image.
- Yandex (Click the Camera): Performs search of the internet from image.
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AV Media: Photo Metadata
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METADATA2GO Decodes metadata encapsulated in an image such as – shutter speed, lens focal length, use of flash, date taken and more.
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AV Media: Deepfake Database & Detection API
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Sensity: Visual threat intelligence that analyzes visual media for threats such as deep fakes, manipulated images, malicious users and more.
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AV Media: Reverse Sound Search
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ARCCloud: Identifies songs by recording, humming, or singing sounds.
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Website Archives and Citation
- archive.today: Webpage capture technology that retrieves snapshots of webpages, even if the original page has been taken offline.
- Perma.cc: Helps user create permanent records of website citations by creating permanent links.
- Wayback Machine: Provides free access to a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
- WebCite: Archives web references to ensure that cited web material remains available to readers in the future.
Information-Operation Archives
Many platforms have archived and released data detailing the behavior of coordinated, inauthentic influence campaigns. The level of disclosure varies by platform and over time. Use the button below to find archived data by platform regarding identified and suspended content from coordinated inauthentic campaigns.
Read More HerePublic Writings
- Custer’s Last Tweet: Avoiding a Digital Little Bighorn in the Fight for Hearts and Minds
- Interpreting the ‘Twitter Files’: Lessons About External Influence on Content Moderation
- Russian Social Media Promotion of Sputnik V in Latin America
- Understanding the Pro-China Propaganda and Disinformation Tool Set in Xinjiang
- The Real Target of Authoritarian Disinformation
- That Uplifting Tweet You Just Shared? A Russian Troll Sent It
Research
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The Spot the Troll Quiz game increases accuracy in discerning between real and inauthentic social media accounts
Jeff Lees, John Banas, Darren Linvill, and Patrick Meirick Proceedings of the National Academy of Science – Nexus (April, 2023)
Read here: https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/2/4/pgad094/7083320
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Talking to Trolls—How Users Respond to a Coordinated Information Operation and Why They’re So Supportive
Darren Linvill, Amanda Moore, and Patrick Warren. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (January, 2022)
Read here: https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/27/1/zmab022/6445224
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Inauthentic Newsfeeds and Agenda Setting in a Coordinated Inauthentic Information Operation
Carl Ehrett, Darren L. Linvill, Hudson Smith, Patrick Warren, Leya Bellamy, Marianna Moawad, Olivia Moran, Monica Moody. Social Science Computer Review., June, 2021.
Read here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08944393211019951
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Mapping the messenger: Exploring the disinformation of QAnon
Linvill, D., Chambers, M., Duck, J., & Sheffield, S. First Monday, (December, 2021).
Read here: https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/11745
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Troll Factories: Manufacturing Specialized Disinformation on Twitter
Darren Linvill and Patrick L. Warren Journal of Political Communication (February, 2020)
Read here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10584609.2020.1718257
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“THE RUSSIANS ARE HACKING MY BRAIN!” investigating Russia's internet research agency twitter tactics during the 2016 United States presidential campaign
Darren L. Linvill, Brandon C. Boatwright, Will J. Grant, Patrick L. Warren, Computers in Human Behavior, (October, 2019).
Read here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074756321930202X
