A phony name made up by a user in order to masquerade as someone else on the Internet. Sock puppets can make controversial comments or vote for or against a cause without revealing their identity.

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 ...

Perhaps nothing embodies the fortunes of Silicon Valley so well as the Sock Puppet. Created in 1999 by the San Francisco office of ad agency TBWAChiatDay, this garrulous piece of stuffed hosiery rode ...