“A sockpuppet investigation is not my thing,” DocTree added. “I would much prefer to just stay in the background, edit Wikipedia, and stick with my articles on old and dead ornithologists. ...

As an excellent article in the Daily Dot revealed, these sockpuppet accounts were linked via a meticulous investigation to one original bogus account with the username Morning277, which had been ...

In online parlance, a sockpuppet is a false identity created for purposes of deception. In this campaign, a sockpuppet is a friendly chap named Budsy who attempts to come across as trustworthy and ...

The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind omnipresent online encyclopedia Wikipedia, has revealed that almost 400 user accounts have been blocked by volunteer editors.

Wikipedia's war with a professional PR agency is escalating. Wikimedia, the non-profit that supports the community-generated encyclopedia, made headlines last month by saying it was looking into a ...

Ellory's sockpuppet urges readers, "Just buy it, read it, and make up your own mind. Whatever else it might do, it will touch your soul." This reads like one-sheet publicity material.

Wikipedia editors have expressed "shock and dismay" at the discovery of hundreds of user accounts set up to make paid-for entries. Paid-for advocacy and the adoption of fake "sockpuppet ...

Johannesburg - Fake Twitter accounts are being used to drive an alleged “misinformation” campaign that is seen to benefit the controversial Gupta family. This is according to a series of tweets by a ...

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