Kevin Nguyen

News website The Noticer promotes white supremacist ideologies and its headlines have been shared by federal election candidates and sitting parliamentarians. By ⁦@cog_ink⁩ and ⁦@doctorworkman⁩ for ABC NEWS Verify. #ABCInvestigations abc.net.au/news/2025-04-1…

Attacks on experts, misinformation and disinformation narratives imported from the US and misrepresenting the true level of community opposition: the election “blood-fest” over wind farms. By ⁦@SteveCannane⁩ and ⁦@cog_ink⁩ #ABCInvestigations abc.net.au/news/2025-03-3…

Oh before I forget, thank you to @timothyjgraham for the expert commentary and @EmergencyBK for providing the screenshots before the accounts were suspended.

Without making any definitive statements about the true culprits behind the bots targeting Reynolds's defamation trial (among dozens of other headline topics), here's a breakdown of the network's structure and behaviour. Read the full story: abc.net.au/news/2024-08-2…

Attributing to state actors in particular should have quite a high bar of evidence, IMO. X is a vast sea of bots and the great majority of them have absolutely nothing to do with state actors.

Excellent and detailed work as always from @cog_ink and the ABC NEWS Verify team

Meta will be replacing CrowdTangle with the Meta Content Library, which it says will be more functional. However, the tool will only be available to vetted academics and non-profit researchers. This restriction means almost all news reporters can no longer see under FB's hood.

We caught a disinfo operation targeting the UK race riots on Facebook. The tool we used, CrowdTangle, has been one of the small degrees of transparency offered by Meta. Today, the social media platform is killing it off for good. Story w/ @doctorworkman abc.net.au/news/2024-08-1…

Read, watch, and listen to our investigation today on @abcnews. A thank you to @tinfoiltales_AU @SOS149 @tassiekaz @HarryHobbsUTS, David Heilpern, @cookerwatch and so many others we spoke to for this story. abc.net.au/news/2024-07-1…

NDA did not respond to our requests for comment. One of its members, Rocco Avati, after I reached out for comment sent me a text that read: "Thanks for your call yesterday, and hope to see you noosed up in gallows later this decade 👍🙏🍺" The group's motto is "do no harm".

Our investigation shows how Helen and the group have subjected her ex-partner and her kids to "relentless" harassment and intimidation, with NDA's bogus court. They've threatened him with "life imprisonment... with hard labour" if he didn't surrender his two sons.

The co-inventor of the group, Nmdaka Dalai Australis (NDA), is wanted woman Helen Delaney — who now goes by "Maya" and is the group's self-described "lore chief". Helen became known as the "window smash mum" after being arrested for driving an unregistered vehicle last year.

Far from the low-range driving offences they're usually mocked for, an investigation from @doctorworkman and I have uncovered how a radical anti-government group are using a fake court to terrorise a family and harass court officials and police. abc.net.au/news/2024-07-1…

UPDATE: Meta have confirmed the five Facebook pages @doctorworkman and I identified as part of a foreign influence operation targeting the UK elections were engaging in deceptive tactics. They've now been taken down. Read the update here @abcnews abc.net.au/news/2024-07-0…

Our investigation was aided by CrowdTangle, a transparency tool for journalists and researchers that Meta is tragically shutting down in August. help.crowdtangle.com/en/articles/90…