2020 GLOBAL INVENTORY OF ORGANIZED SOCIAL MEDIA MANIPULATION
TABLE 2 - FAKE ACCOUNT TYPES
Country
Bots
Human
Hacked or
Stolen
Country
Angola
Libya
Argentina
Macedonia
Armenia
Malaysia
Australia
Malta
Austria
Mexico
Azerbaijan
Moldova
Bahrain
Myanmar
Belarus
Netherlands
Bolivia
Nigeria
Bosnia & Herzegovina
North Korea
Brazil
Oman
Cambodia
Pakistan
China
Philippines
Colombia
Poland
Costa Rica
Qatar
Croatia
Russia
Cuba
Rwanda
Czech Republic
Saudi Arabia
Ecuador
Serbia
Egypt
South Africa
El Salvador
South Korea
Eritrea
Spain
Ethiopia
Sri Lanka
Georgia
Sudan
Germany
Sweden
Ghana
Syria
Greece
Taiwan
Guatemala
Tajikistan
Honduras
Thailand
Hungary
Tunisia
India
Turkey
Indonesia
Ukraine
Iran
United Arab Emirates
Iraq
United Kingdom
Israel
United States
Italy
Uzbekistan
Kazakhstan
Venezuela
Kenya
Vietnam
Kyrgyzstan
Yemen
Kuwait
Zimbabwe
Bots
Human
Hacked or
Stolen
Lebanon
Source: Authors’ evaluations based on data collected. Note: This table reports on the types of fake accounts identified between 2010-2020. Bots refer to highly-automated accounts. For fake social
media account types:
= Automated Accounts,
= Human Accounts,
= Hacked, Stolen or Impersonation Accounts,
= No evidence found.
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