Case Studies

Born from a single trenchant joke tweeted out of exasperation, the #OscarsSoWhite campaign has grown into a long-lasting movement demanding racial equity in Hollywood.

What the media often referred to as the GameStop saga was actually a case study in media manipulation.

How the Milk Tea Alliance evolved from a meme war into a transnational network of young activists who use media manipulation and protest tactics to counter authoritarian actions worldwide.

In 2020, a protest movement took to the streets across America purportedly attempting to "#SaveTheChildren" from a non-existent satanic cabal.

Chileans voted overwhelmingly in October 2020 to scrap their dictatorship-era constitution and draft a more democratic new constitution. In the months before that referendum, a hashtag campaign deluged Chilean Twitter with messages opposing a new constitution and spreading misinformation across the South American country. A media manipulation campaign targeting an election in this way was novel for Chile—and journalists in fact-checkers struggled to respond.