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FeaturedSeptember 2, 2025

The Coordinated Shadow Campaign Targeting Norway’s Election

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Cyabra is One of Wiredโ€™s Top 100 Startups

Cyabra is honored to have been selected as one of Wired magazine's top 100 startups. Each year, Wired magazine compiles a list of the hottest...

Rotem Baruchin

March 14, 2024

Bots Amplify the Gmail Sunset Hoax

At the end of February, a viral tweet and image of an email from Google claiming that โ€œGmail will officially be sunsettedโ€ started trending on...

Futuristic illustration of a robot at a desk with a Cyabra-branded monitor facing a stylized digital sunset featuring a prominent Gmail envelope icon, set in a cosmic landscape with planets, circuitry, and glowing flora to evoke the theme of bots spreading the Gmail sunset hoax

Rotem Baruchin

March 11, 2024

A Bumpy Road: Bots Attack Autonomous Car Waymo

Googleโ€™s self-driving car company, Waymo, has recently encountered a series of collision incidents that have raised safety concerns and led to a product recall.  Criticism...

Giant robot figures symbolizing online bots loom over congested city traffic, pelting autonomous cars with angry-face and thumbs-down icons to portray a coordinated negativity campaign against self-driving vehicles

Rotem Baruchin

March 4, 2024

Bots Led Online Discussions About Cellular Outage

On February 22, a cellular outage spread through the US.  Over 70,000 customers were left with no cell services for almost a full day. The...

Humans and humanoid robots in a crowded setting using smartphones, surrounded by speech bubbles filled with happy and angry emojis to symbolize bot-driven social media reactions during a cellular outage

Rotem Baruchin

February 29, 2024

Tracking Anti-Navalny Bot Armies

This story was written by Evan Solomon and was first posted on Gzero, based on Cyabra's research. _____ In an exclusive investigation into online disinformation...

Magnifying glass highlighting a hooded anonymous figure beside a black-and-white photo of Alexei Navalny, symbolizing an investigation into coordinated anti-Navalny bot activity

Rotem Baruchin

February 28, 2024

Cyabra Partners With Global PR Agency Golin to Fight Brand Disinformationย 

Cyabra is thrilled to announce a new partnership with Golin, the global PR agency. The collaboration empowers Golin's clients to proactively protect their brand reputations...

Cyabra and Golin logos with headline 'Cyabra partners with Golin to fight disinformation' on a purple network-patterned background

Rotem Baruchin

February 20, 2024

Bots Break the Bank: NY Community Bank Crisis

Among the troubles that New York Community Bank (NYCB) has been facing over the past two weeks, an online storm of fake profiles might look...

Robots representing social media bots gather in front of a bank engulfed in flames, with floating like and hashtag icons illustrating online chatter

Rotem Baruchin

February 14, 2024

Misinformation Monthly – February 2024

Each month, our experts at Cyabra list some of the interesting articles, items, essays and stories theyโ€™ve read this month. Come back every month for...

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Rotem Baruchin

February 8, 2024

Bots Hitch a Ride on Boltโ€™s PR Crisis

At the end of January, ride-hailing company Bolt faced a PR crisis with a lot of the conversation playing out on X (Twitter). As Bolt...

Hand holding a smartphone displaying a city map with location pins, overlaid with network graphics connecting multiple small autonomous delivery robots against an urban street background

Rotem Baruchin

February 5, 2024

Rip Curl Caught in a Vortex of Fake Profiles

International surf sportswear brand Rip Curl is under attack on social media after featuring a transgender surfer in its latest womenโ€™s campaign.  But the massively...

Robots riding surfboards on bright ocean waves, visualizing a swarm of social-media bots affecting the Rip Curl brand

Rotem Baruchin

January 30, 2024

#BoycottWoolworths Enhanced by Fake Profiles

Woolworths Supermarkets, AKA โ€œWooliesโ€, is Australia's biggest supermarket chain, sometimes referred to as โ€œthe Aussie Walmartโ€. Founded in 1924, Woolworths holds a market share of...

Map of Australia overlaid with #BoycottWoolworths, #BoycottWoolies and #WokeWorth slogans, red location pins marked as Woolworths stores, and angry face and thumbs-down icons showing nationwide boycott sentiment

Rotem Baruchin

January 23, 2024

Phone-y Business: Imposter CEO Risks T-Mobile

Letโ€™s talk about impersonations online, and more importantly, about the connection between impersonations and brand reputation: in the past year, Cyabra has witnessed a steady...

Smartphone displaying the T-Mobile logo surrounded by frowning and nauseated emoji faces and thumbs-down icons, symbolizing customer frustration and impersonation risks

Rotem Baruchin

January 15, 2024

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Joins Cyabraโ€™s Board

Cyabra is thrilled to announce the appointment of 70th Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to its Board of Directors. As a prominent figure in the...

Two men wearing jackets smiling against a dark blue backdrop with abstract purple shapes and Cyabra owl logo

Rotem Baruchin

January 11, 2024

Unveiling Online Threats to Individuals

High-profile individuals in important roles across companies and organizations are frequently subject to risks emerging from the online world. You donโ€™t have to be Elon...

Rotem Baruchin

January 8, 2024

Misinformation Monthly – January 2024

Each month, our experts at Cyabra list some of the interesting articles, items, essays and stories theyโ€™ve read this month. Come back every month for...

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Rotem Baruchin

January 4, 2024

Hashtag Hijacked: Bots Amplify #BoycottZara

#BoycottZara isnโ€™t a classic tale of PR fiasco and crisis management. It may seem like one. But what it is, in fact, is a case...

Fashion model in edgy Zara-style outfit stands in studio beside an illustrated social-media network filled with bot icons, angry emojis, thumbs-down symbols and a tablet reading #BoycottZara, symbolizing an automated online boycott campaign

Rotem Baruchin

December 26, 2023

McWho? Bad Actors Impersonating McDonaldโ€™s

McDonaldโ€™s is one of the most impersonated brands online.  McDonaldโ€™s Impersonations didnโ€™t start in 2023. A 2017โ€™s imposter account fooled not only the entirety of...

McDonaldโ€™s restaurant facade on a purple pixelated tech backdrop, surrounded by vulgar fake tweets and angry reaction emojis that illustrate social media impersonators tarnishing the brand

Rotem Baruchin

December 18, 2023

Time of Arrival: Never! The Luggage Scam

In 2023, Facebook is still the most popular social network online, with 3.030 billion monthly active users. its massive user base has always made it...

Traveler facing airport departure boards and piles of abandoned suitcases with price tags while social-media icons float overhead, illustrating luggage sale scams

Rotem Baruchin

December 5, 2023