Ben Nimmo

about

Ben Nimmo is Meta’s global threat intelligence lead. He was a co-founder of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), and later served as Graphika’s first head of investigations. He has helped to expose foreign election interference in the United States, United Kingdom and France; documented troll operations in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas; and been declared dead by an army of Twitter bots. A graduate of Cambridge University, he speaks French, German, Russian, and Latvian, among other languages.

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Phase-based Tactical Analysis of Online Operations

A new model for analyzing online threats could help investigators detect and disrupt malicious operations more quickly—and enable them to better share their insights and understanding with one another.

  • Ben Nimmo
  • Eric Hutchins
· March 16, 2023
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Understanding Information Operations with Twitter Data Launch Event
July 9, 2020

In 2018, Twitter released a large archive of tweets and media from Russian and Iranian troll farms. This archive of information operations has since been expanded to include activity originating from more than 15 countries and offers researchers unique insight into how IO unfolds on the service.

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  • Graham Brookie
  • Ben Nimmo
  • Martin Innes
  • Kate Starbird
  • Renée DiResta
  • Camille François
  • Dhiraj Murthy
  • Jake Shapiro
  • Jacob Wallis
  • James Pamment