Foreign influence campaigns, or information operations, have been widespread in the run-up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Influence campaigns are large-scale efforts to shift public opinion, ...

At the Indiana University Observatory on Social Media, my colleagues and I study influence campaigns and design technical solutions—algorithms—to detect and counter them. State-of-the-art methods ...

The social media trends shaping 2025 are like something we’ve never seen before—the landscape is undergoing a massive transformation. There is a seismic shift where social media networks are moving ...