Beware the Internet's meat puppets. And sock puppets. And trolls and shills and astroturfing and other forms of dubious online marketing. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...

In the untold expanse of online information and communication, the ability to find the signal in the noise and discern the authenticity of data and its sources becomes increasingly critical. We’ve ...

Sock puppets might not seem like an obvious ticket to success, but for one Dallas group, an experimental sock puppet video turned into years’ worth of videos with millions of YouTube and social media ...