Cyabra shields companies and organizations by uncovering disinformation, bad actors, bot networks, and GenAI content. Uncover the good, bad, and fake online.
As the attacks on Israel continue, another battleground has opened up across social media.
Cyabra has analyzed 2 million posts, pictures, and videos across Facebook, X (Twitter), Instagram, and TikTok.
Here are some of our findings.
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Take a deep dive into
#online
bots! Where they come from, why they form, and what they do.
Using Cyabra,
@RyanMcbeth
breaks this topic down in depth and shares how to detect a
#fakeprofile
online.
Looks like
@CaptCoronado
blocked me after outing the an account as a Russian bot. Please watch my video where I expose the truth and feel free to let the account know you did.
How Disinformation Bots are Born:
Bots make America hate again.
The US elections are still more than a year away, but the bots are already here.
Social media is FLOODED with election-manipulating bots. ๐ค๐ค๐ค
Some conversations have 95% (!) fake profiles (!!!)
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Cyabra partner,
@RyanMcbeth
, dove into the recent collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, when it was struck by a container ship around 1:30 AM on March 26th.
Ryan uncovered a spread of
#misinformation
on
#socialmedia
, beginning at 6:33 AM the same day,
#Elections
season has officially begun. ๐ณ
In a report investigating the prevalence of disinformation and fake accounts with elections, Cyabra has uncovered three massive armies of bots intent on affecting the US 2024 elections.
Big news! Cyabra is taking the next step in our mission to combat online disinformation - we're going public on the Nasdaq! ๐
Why go public now? Simple - the fight against disinformation can't wait.
With AI-powered threats evolving rapidly and major elections approaching
Who isn't talking about the
#johnnydepp
and
#amberheard
#trial
at the moment?
The analysts at Cyabra uncovered Twitter findings from thousands of profiles talking about this trending topic.
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Over the last few weeks, those bot networks have been attacking both
#Democrat
and
#Republican
candidates. ๐ค
Cyabra is already seeing signs that the coming US election season will have the highest levels of misinformation and influence operations in history.
I have been bottling up this amazing news, which I can finally share with everyone -
@mikepompeo
, 70th Secretary of State for the US government, is joining
@TheCyabra
's Board of Directors! ๐๐ท
Aside from his unbelievable previous role, former Secretary Pompeo was also the
Hi
@elonmusk
That elusive number you are looking for, theย number of fake accounts on Twitter, we have it.ย
It's 13.7%.ย
In the last 12 months, we've scanned millions of profiles on Twitter (semi-supervised ML) and identifiedย that 13.7% of them are fake accounts.
The United States'
#democracy
is at risk.
For what, one may ask? Well, as technology and
#AI
advances, the threat of
#disinformation
looms even larger.
Previously, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a threat bulletin warning of โan
#online
environment filled with
#DeppHeardTrial
โฆwho is winning the social media discourse?
We identified a 4463% increase in positive sentiment about Depp's lawyer, Camille Vazquez. During the same period, we detected an increase in the negative sentiment about Amber Heard.
#DeppVsHeard
When an
#influencer
such as
@jacksonhinklle
exploded with two million new followers since October, questions about the authenticity of these profiles arose.
Hinkle, known for his controversial, conservative commentary via podcasts, articles, and
#socialmedia
posts, focuses on
#DeppHeardTrial
conclusionsโฆthe Aquaman franchise has taken a reputation hit
Negative sentiment about the film during the trial has increased 17%.
9.1% of the profiles discussing
#Aquaman
were inauthentic.
#depp
#heard
Tired of seeing brands using the rainbow flag as part of their marketing strategy during Pride Month, especially brands are known for their support of anti-LGBTQ politicians and organizations? Youโre not alone. (1 of 6) >
Cyabra tracked several key
#influencers
on X (Twitter) and uncovered that, on average, 25% of their followers were
#FakeProfiles
. ๐ค
One thing all those influential figures had in common: they were all promoting anti-democratic and anti-western content.
To give you an idea of the scale of the information war being fought in Gaza. I spoke with
@TheCyabra
this week.
An example from their work. Between 17-18 October:
31% of X accounts using the hashtag
#IsraeliNewNazism
were fake accounts with a reach of 5.1m views.
39% of X
Great to see
@joerogan
posting on
@instagram
about our data uncovering fake accounts that have been discussing the
#johnnydepp
and
#amberheard
trial.
If you liked that Joe, we think you'll want to see how govts are using social platforms to distort everyday conversations๐คฏ
Using Cyabraโs technology,
@RyanMcBeth
unveils the link between Russian bots and ESPN on social media!
Learn how Russia's
#disinformation
tactics are evolving, with bots posing as ESPN reporters, blending sports news with misinformation and political commentary.
Russian Bots and
@ESPN
- A New Disinformation Tactic
Russian bots are now using fake X/Twitter accounts mascurading as ESPN sports reporters. They use a mix of sports news and extremist / anti-Ukraine propaganda to masquerade as aythentic accounts.
Could
#socialmedia
be influencing court cases or public opinion?
๐ท
@gzeromedia
& Cyabra found 17% of online conversations in the recent
#TrumpTrial
are from bots, potentially reaching 49.1M people!
๐ท Even more so, most are negative, framing Trump as a political martyr. Read
How does Cyabra detect risks and threats to individuals online?
Why is it so important to catch a
#socialmedia
attack before it starts trending? ๐ฑ
And can those trends be stopped before they emerge as a threat in the offline world?ย โ ๏ธ
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Mere moments after President
@JoeBiden
officially announced he would not be running for a second term, fake profiles were already latching onto his post and onto Vice President
@KamalaHarris
post. ๐ณ๏ธ
Cyabra analyzed online discourse following Bidenโs announcement, and
.
@mikepompeo
, former U.S. Secretary of State and member of Cyabra's board of directors, discusses how certain countries possess advanced
#disinformation
capabilities, and the potential impacts this may have on the Western world.
Could 25% of followers for some of the most prominent
#influencers
be fake? Dive into Cyabra's scan unveiling the darker side of
#digital
influence!๐ค๐ฌ
What is the ABC of Disinformation?
@DavidBarAharon1
, Head of Private Sector Sales at Cyabra, explains the methods for understanding online disinformation tactics used to attack brands, individuals, and even entire countries. ๐
#FakeProfiles
#Disinformation
#FakeCampaign
Bot-driven campaigns targeting brands?!
โCyabra Discoversโ dives into how
#bots
manipulate
#socialmedia
to skew conversations and damage
#brandreputation
with Customer Success Manager, Liat Grindler.
.
@DanbyAssaf
, Cyabra's VP of Sales, EMEA & APAC, will discuss "How to Detect
#FakeNews
" at the 6th International Symposium on
#Security
in Brazil, May 8-9.
Visit us at Booth 33 to hear about Cyabra's latest achievements!
Cyabra's CEO,
@DanBrahmy
, was the guest star in the latest episode of cyber-security podcast
@darkmode_podcst
Dan spoke to hosts
@GabeMarzano
and
@_BenSullivan_
about media literacy, weapons of mass disruptions, disinformation, ๐ค fake news, and pasta. ๐
Hey Elon, did you know that 8.3% of all Twitter profiles that mentioned you in the last few weeks were fake?
The Cyabra platform tracked all conversations in March & April that spoke about you and your newly owned platform.
Something to think about ๐คฏ
How does Cyabra detect risks and threats to individuals online?
Why is it so important to catch a
#socialmedia
attack before it starts trending? ๐ฑ
Can those trends be stopped before they emerge as a threat in the offline world? โ ๏ธ
Read our Cyabra blog post detailing our
Cyabra and
@GolinGlobal
are partnering to protect brand reputations from
#disinformation
! It's like Batman and Robin joining forces, but for the
#digital
world.
"We are thrilled to partner with Cyabra," said Jonny Bentwood, Golinโs Global President, Data & Analytics.
"Cyabra's
Cyabraโs team had an amazing time at
#ISS
Europe in Prague, discussing threat actors using
#SocialEngineering
to spread
#Disinformation
and
#FakeNews
on
#SocialMedia
.
Did you visit our booth? If youโd like to hear more about Cyabra, what we uncover, and how we do it, contact us.
Explore the link between
#online
authenticity &
#disinformation
.
@JackLatham
's book, "Beggarโs Honey", delves into a Hong Kong click farm, showing how youths can manipulate
#socialmedia
to boost engagement deceptively!
Moments after it was officially announced that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi had died in a helicopter crash,
#conspiracy
theories started to spread on social media. ๐
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Bots make America hate again.
It's 18 months before the elections, and they're already here.
Social media is FLOODED with election-manipulating bots. ๐ค๐ค๐ค
Some conversations have 95% (!) fake profiles (!!!)
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What are the differences between online
#bots
vs "sock puppets" on
#socialmedia
?
Cyabra CEO,
@DanBrahmy
, breaks down the two and discusses how malicious actors are using these tools to spread
#fakecampaigns
online.
Today is
#SaferInternetDay
!
Safer internet is not just about protecting yourself and your family from scams and phishing. ๐ฆบ Itโs a growing problem that involves all of us: people, public sector organizations and companies alike. โ ๏ธ
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Today is Safer Internet Day, so I thought I'd share 7 incredibly useful
#cybersecurity
awareness resources that my team at CyberSafe and I have created (or provided advisory for) in our fight against cybercrime over the last four years.
Happy Safer Internet Day!
Every brand's dream is to be featured on a hit Netflix show. If you work in a charity shop, play chess, train at a dojo, or even if youโre a long-time fan of Kate Bush, youโve definitely seen the results of the Netflix Effect in the last years. (1/2) ๐บ
On October 7th, over 40,000 fake
#socialmedia
profiles began to spread
#disinformation
.
@TIME
explores how this Pro-Hamas propaganda is being transmitted, and shares Cyabra's intelligence analysis of this online war.
Was Alexei Navalny's death accompanied by a massive
#propaganda
campaign? Could it be possible to track the birth of a
#bot
army in real-time?
Cyabra helped
@gzeromedia
explore the recent events surrounding Navalny's tragic passing.
Read the full story:
(1/3) Influencers on
#TikTok
have tasked users to cyberbully prominent figures on the platform into discussing the current war in
#Gaza
, calling this trend โProject Watermelonโ.
In an analysis by
@RyanMcBeth
using Cyabra technology, most of the โattackerโ accounts were found to
This particular TikTok trend called โProject Watermelonโ uses slacktivism & cyber bullying to target select influencers into talking Gaza by commenting on unrelated events that are outside of a particular influencerโs area of expertise. Thanks
@TheCyabra
Hamas's assault on Israel is aided by a coordinated influence operations campaign involving tens of thousands of fake profiles.
Cyabra has been analyzing social media conversations to uncover propaganda and fake news regarding the war.
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Cyabra had the opportunity to take part in the Cambridge
#Disinformation
Summit.
Our VP Marketing
@rafimendelsohn
participated in a panel session on Micro-targeting. ๐ฑ
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#BoycottRipCurl
exploded on social media during the past week. In just 4 days, the use of the hashtag increased by 424% ๐ฃ
Cyabra uncovered fake accounts that flooded conversations across X, Facebook, and Instagram. ๐ค
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Another short video from our CEO,ย
@DanBrahmy
, sharing regular updates about the Israel-Hamas online battlefront.
This video discusses DIP: Deceptive Imagery Persuasion, a technique used to spread propaganda andย
#disinformation
, now widely used by fake pro-Hamas profiles.
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Ten days since the Israel-Hamas war began.
I'm recording regular videos in English, French and Hebrew, as part of
@TheCyabra
's efforts to fight the online battle against fake profiles spreading pro-Hamas content.
The online battlefront of the Israel-Hamas war is raging, with tens of thousands of fake profiles spreading pro-Hamas fake narratives, reaching the eyes of hundreds of millions of people, and manipulating public opinion.
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Itโs the final countdown: two days to the
#Midterms
#Election
!
Cyabraโs experts journeyed into the wilderness of Twitter and TikTok and uncovered disinformation campaigns spread mostly by authentic communities, showing distrust towards voting machines and the voting system (1/4)
Just confirmed: Cyabraโs CEO,
@DanBrahmy
, will speak at the 2024
@_FIBEP
World Media Intelligence Congress.
The theme for the congress is โBeyond Algorithms: Unleashing the Power of AI for Strategic Decision-Making.โ
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A two-month research by Cyabra, featured on
@Reuters
, uncovered that 15% of the profiles supporting Trump and criticizing Biden in
#election
discourse on X are
#fake
.
Propaganda spread by the fake profiles reached a potential 185 million views.
* What part would
#Deepfakes
play in the upcoming US presidential elections?
* How are
#GenAI
models able to replicate famous people, including dead historical figures?ย ๐ค
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As 2024 sees a rise in protests on college campuses, tackling online hate has never been more urgent.
On Cyabra's Too Much
#Disinformation
podcast,
@rafimendelsohn
and Dr.
@MeganSquire0
from
@splcenter
explore the nuances of de-platforming hate speech. ๐๏ธ
They delve into its
(2/3) They target influencers in unrelated fields, like beauty and food, bombarding their videos and feeds with comments until they're pressured to respond and come out with a statement on the current political matter.
One influencer even decided to shut down her attack due to
(1/3) Influencers on
#TikTok
have tasked users to cyberbully prominent figures on the platform into discussing the current war in
#Gaza
, calling this trend โProject Watermelonโ.
In an analysis by
@RyanMcBeth
using Cyabra technology, most of the โattackerโ accounts were found to
Have you ever wondered how social media is being used by foreign actors to run
#disinformation
campaigns?
Cyabra's Assaf Danby recently took 20 minutes to speak to the Cybertech audience to explain just that.
#misinformation
#socialmedia
* Who are the malicious actors behind online attacks and disinformation? ๐น
* What are the methods they use to mislead, distract, enrage, and confuse us? ๐ค
* How much of the content we see on social media is actually fake? ๐ต๏ธ
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#DeppHeardTrial
โฆwho is winning the social media discourse?
Cyabra uncovered double the number of profiles taking part in Anti-
#Heard
/Pro-
#Depp
conversations than there was Pro-Heard/Anti-Depp discourse
(May 17-24/Twitter)
Hot off the press!
Cyabra has been selected as one of
@WIRED
Magazine's top 100 startups!
#Disinformation
on
#socialmedia
is one of the greatest threats to democracy and threatens the very fabric of our society.
Autonomous car manufacturer
@Waymo
was recently trending on X due to a recall of 444 self-driving vehicles. ๐
On the day the recall was announced, 37% of the online conversations about Waymo were generated by bots. ๐ค
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Female Bots Dominate Disinformation. ๐ฉโ๐ฆฐ๐ค
A new analysis by Cyabra studied some of the most effective fake campaigns in the past year, and hereโs what our analysts uncovered:
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Fake profiles, and especially those impersonating real ones, have become a major issue on social media platforms.๐ฅธ
@Disney
is the latest to be impacted.
Don't let it happen to your company.
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If youโre a large company, watch out: itโs likely your impersonators are already out there, working to take advantage of your reputation, and damaging it in the process. ๐ฅธ
Cyabra uncovered 165 Twitter accounts impersonating one of Indonesia's largest banks, Bank Negara (BNI)
Fighting
#AI
with AI is the only way to defend against upcoming threats.
Cyabra introduces: , a new
#GenAI
detection tool.
is free to use and requires no sign-in. Try it now, and help us spread the word!
Creating fake profiles on
#socialmedia
used to require the skills of seasoned hackers. However, with the new and improved
#GenAI
tools, generating convincing
#fakeprofiles
has become alarmingly simple. Hear about spotting bots and fake profiles in our newest โCyabra Discoversโ!
Cyabra employees,
@DavidBarAharon1
and
@rafimendelsohn
, recently attended the
@AmecOrg
Global Summit!
It was an incredible opportunity to engage with industry leaders and discuss the latest trends in media evaluation and communication research. Looking forward to our next
Why does every company need to understand
#disinformation
, like we do at
@TheCyabra
? ๐ฆ
You already know my answer, so donโt listen to me: Listen to
@JonnyBentwood
, Global President of Data & Analytics at
@GolinGlobal
, one of the largest PR agencies in the world!
Check out the
How many
#words
do you think you looked up this year? Among the most popular words of 2023,
@MerriamWebster
named โauthenticโ and โdeepfakeโ. ๐๐
With a rise in topics and narratives surrounding
#AI
, celebrities, identity theft, and
#socialmedia
, users are keeping a closer eye
On Cyabra's
#podcast
, "Too Much (dis)Information", host
@rafimendelsohn
engages in a thought-provoking discussion with Professor
@jagolinzer
!
They explore how corporations are increasingly vulnerable to malicious actors on
#socialmedia
, including stock manipulation, competitor
Read
@AP
's coverage of Cyabraโs latest analysis, which uncovered false narratives, fake accounts, and GenAI manipulated images, which started trending right after the attempted assassination on Former President
#Trump
.
#Disinformation
#Election2024
Fake accounts are increasing in number and impact across all social media platforms. ๐๐ฌ
Alex Wineman, Solutions Engineer at Cyabra, reveals 10 telltale signs that a profile is fake. ๐ค๐บ
Keep in mind: those 10 signs are only the tip of the iceberg, easily recognizable by the
Hackers no longer need to directly breach online trading platforms. ๐๐
Now, they can exploit frustrated clients to attack these platforms. ๐ค
Cyabra has uncovered 84 Twitter profiles selling hacking services to E-Trading users who were locked out of their accounts. ๐ฎ
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Cyabraโs CEO
@DanBrahmy
, will be giving a talk at
@INFONEX
virtual conference, 7-8 March.
Dan will speak of protecting brands from the impact of disinformation and misinformation, identifying bad and fake actors, how inauthentic activity manifests on each social media platform,
What can do for you?
* Detect GenAI texts (ChatGPT, Bard, etc)
* Detect GenAI image models (โThis X isnโt realโ, etc)
* Scan and identify fake profiles on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram
#AI
#GenAI
#Fakeprofiles
#bots
#botbusters
Come to meet us at ISS Europe! ๐ค
Cyabraโs VP,
@DanbyAssaf
, will be at
#ISS
World Europe in Prague on June 6-8.
If youโre interested in Cyabraโs technology or want to learn more about what we do, contact us to set up a meeting with Assaf: ๐ฆ
โThe innovative algorithm enables efficient and instantaneous monitoring of anti-Semitic expressions within the network, thereby enhancing the capacity to report and remove such posts.โ๐ฆ
Learn how Cyabra, through their pro bono work, helped FOA monitor >
Funny Girl: a 1964 Broadway musical๐ญ based on the real-life story of actress and comedian Fanny Brice (left) originally played by Barbra Streisand (right). ๐๐ป
Cyabra presents a case study: one month of tracking the endless squabble around the
#funnygirl
2022 revival.๐งต1/10
Social media teams arenโt equipped for cyber warfare. ๐ฑ
Cyber security teams donโt see social media as a threat. ๐ฃ
The only solution for risks emerging from the online sphere is for those teams to work together, >
Travel agencies, watch out! โ
Scammers in Singapore took advantage of global layoffs and the fluctuating economy to impersonate employees of travel agencies and offer remote jobs. ๐จโ๐ป
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Brands, who is responsible for defending your company from fake campaigns and other attacks on social media? ๐ก๏ธ
Brand disinformation is on the rise, and our crisis management tactics are no longer sufficient when dealing with a
#PRcrisis
led by fake profiles. ๐ค
In recent