The World Needs Zero Fraud On Social Media
Our mission is to identify, analyze, and eliminate fraud that misleads users, manipulates public opinion, and violates transparency standards.
Social Media Platforms’ Compliance with the EU’s Digital Services Act
Reports
“Industrial-Scale Manipulation”: how bot networks are hijacking TikTok in Germany to boost far-right AfD content, distorting public opinion with fake engagement and extremist hate speech.
On the abuse of TikTok’s algorithms and synthetic engagement systems during Romania’s now-cancelled presidential elections in 2024
Fraudsters have learned to systematically take advantage of social media ad systems and engagement algorithms.
Blog
EU advertising libraries mandate archiving, reach data, and transparency under the DSA, enabling fraud and influence detection even after ads stop running. In contrast, most US online ads disappear without trace, making large-scale manipulation effectively invisible.
Ad fraud thrives where ad systems lack transparency, allowing platforms to profit while users and businesses bear the harm.
The European Commission fined X €120M for breaching basic transparency rules — from misleading “verification” to an unusable ads library and blocking researchers from accessing public data. Musk frames this as a free-speech issue, but the case shows a refusal to provide accountability, not a defense of expression.