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Profiting from panic: the bizarre bogus cures and scams of the coronavirus era
2020
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
As the world awaits a scientifically proven treatment for COVID-19 alternative and evidence-free remedies such as …
Alaa Ghoneim,Saiful Salihudin,Isra Thange,Anne Wen,Jan Oledan,Jacob N. Shapiro
A jet ski vacation during the coronavirus lockdown? Online liars want to make you mad at politicians
2020
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
In April, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson got so sick from COVID-19 that his father said he …
Giorgio Musto,Kamya Yadav,Audrey Yan,Jan Oledan,Jacob N. Shapiro
Content-based features predict social media influence operations
2020
Science Advances
We study how easy it is to distinguish influence operations from organic social media activity by assessing the performance of a platform-agnostic…
Meysam Alizadeh,Jacob N. Shapiro,Cody Buntain,Joshua A. Tucker
Episode 6 of Irregular Warfare Podcast: Proxy Wars, Part 1- War through Local Agents in Africa
2020
Modern War Institute
In this episode of the Irregular Warfare Podcast, Kyle Atwell and Shawna Sinnott discuss proxy and partner warfare in Africa with retired…

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