Sentence examples for sock puppet account from inspiring English sources

The most prominent of which is the story that made global news in August 2015, after a mischevious TwitLonger post from a sock puppet account, said that the singer had "flicked a fan's vagina" at a meet-and-greet event and taunted the same fan about her weight and "spoke whale to her".

The foundation banned or blocked some 250 sock puppet accounts.

The free encyclopaedia, which contains more than 30 million volunteer-authored articles in nearly 290 languages, called in lawyers after discovering that 300 "sock puppet" accounts - created using false identities - could be traced to a single public relations firm.

Once the money was paid the article was then "reviewed" by another Wikipedia user – in fact another of the scammers' "sock puppet" accounts – and moved to the "article space" section of Wikipedia, meaning it is ready for publication.

The investigation by Mark King and Mike Deri Smith found that at least one Wonga employee had been using "sock puppet" accounts to attack critics of the firm and post favourable comments underneath articles about it.

Today, they, along with their friends, fans, followers, and a zoo of anonymous sock puppet accounts are.

Google's report appears to be limited to accounts with observable ties to the Internet Research Agency, a Russian state-affiliated organization that produces political disinformation and sock puppet accounts.

He went on to explain how Russia state actors create believable sock puppet accounts by insinuating themselves into the middle of a demographic they wish to influence.

By checking against a variety of factors (summed up in the picture above), Trustev's tool for publishers can instantly identify so-called "sock puppet" accounts used by serial trolls to attack others without fear of reprisal.

As part of its effort to combat fake reviews on its platform, Amazon sued three of its sellers today for using sock puppet accounts to post fake reviews about their products.

He monitors and publishes information about these groups he does this through an elaborate network involving moles and sock puppet accounts.