DFR Lab
| DFR Lab Facebook Instagram Twitter Website | |
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| Founder | Atlantic Council |
| Interests | Fake news, countering disinformation, social media, Syria |
| Sponsor of | Foreign influence operations amidst the COVID-19 crisis |
| Membership | Nika Aleksejeva, Lukas Andriukaitis, Nyka Aukstuolis, Luiza Bandeira, Donara Barojan, Graham Brookie, Emerson Brooking, Eto Buziashvili, Andy Carvin, Kait Demchuk, Naz Durakoglu,Geysha González,Givi Gigitashvili,Kanishk Karan, Ayushman Kaul, Zarine Kharazian,Jakub Kalenský,Jeff Moss, Ben Nimmo, Roman Osadchuk, Anna Pellgatta, Esteban Ponce de Leon, Iain Robertson, Michael Sheldon,Richard Stengel, Nick Yap |
| Atlantic Council project mentioned in the Integrity Initiative Leaks | |
The Digital Forensic Research Lab, (the DFR Lab) is a project of the Atlantic Council. It is mentioned in Integrity Initiative Leaks 3, 7 and possibly others.
"It was not considered necessary to conduct due diligence on DFRLab, a project of the Atlantic Council."
Staff
It has had at least two members of staff in common with the Integrity Initiative/Institute for Statecraft group.[1]. Nimmo is one of the founders.[2]
Activities
In 2017 the DFR Lab claimed that twitter account Ian56789 bore "all the hallmarks of a Russian troll", after which the account was suspended. The account owner was however a "UK citizen tired of UK government warmongering".[3]
The Grayzone reported in December 2019 that Ben Nimmo and the DFRLab prompted Facebook and Twitter to delete hundreds of accounts.[4]
Funding
It biggest funders are Facebook the British government [5]
References
- ↑ Lukas Andriukaitis and Ben Nimmo
- ↑ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cyber/u-s-think-tanks-tiny-lab-helps-facebook-battle-fake-social-media-idUSKBN1KS22N
- ↑ https://steemit.com/news/@clarityofsignal/oh-those-embarrassing-moments-atlantic-council-s-ben-nimmo-outs-russian-bot-that-turns-out-to-simply-be-a-uk-citizen-tired-of-uk
- ↑ https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/08/us-uk-military-intelligence-apparatus-destroy-jeremy-corbyn/
- ↑ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cyber/u-s-think-tanks-tiny-lab-helps-facebook-battle-fake-social-media-idUSKBN1KS22N