This combination of photos shows actor Johnny Depp testifying at the Fairfax County Circuit Court in Fairfax, Va., on April 21, 2022, left, and actor Amber Heard testifying in the same courtroom on May 26, 2022. The actors have settled their defamation appeals.
The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial was a pop culture obsession. Saudi trolls may have had a hand in that | CBC News LoadedJohnny Depp and Amber Heard fought a bitter and closely followed legal battle in 2022, accusing one another of defamation. Outside the courtroom, Heard was the target of a barrage of disparaging posts on social media that, according to a new investigative podcast, may have been the workings of a Saudi Arabian bot farm.
Working with researchers to comb through about a million tweets sent in the lead-up to the U.S. trial, Mostrous said they found "inauthentic activity" from accounts operating in far-flung countries like Thailand and Spain. Mostrous took a deep dive using the Wayback Machine, a digital archive of the internet, and found some of those same accounts had deleted hundreds of posts before 2022 that had nothing to do with Depp or Heard.Dan Kim demonstrates in support of Amber Heard, countering a throng of Johnny Depp supporters rally outside of Fairfax County Courthouse on Friday, May 27, 2022.
Johnny Depp at the opening of the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Nov. 30, 2023. The Red Sea Film Foundation has financed two films Depp produced.
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