Meta announced the removal of thousands of fake accounts from Facebook that were operated as part of “the largest known cross-platform covert influence operation in the world” (therecord.media)
from L4s@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 2023 00:00
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Meta announced the removal of thousands of fake accounts from Facebook that were operated as part of “the largest known cross-platform covert influence operation in the world”::undefined

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Amphobet@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 30 Aug 2023 00:13 next collapse

Huge and widespread, yet low-quality and ineffective. Kind of disturbing and amusing at the same time.

CodingAndCoffee@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 2023 00:21 next collapse

My mom’s gonna be so mad her propaganda Trump memes are gone

ElectroNeutrino@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 2023 00:55 collapse

Don’t worry, this was just the Chinese campaign. The Russian one is still going strong.

Kalkaline@programming.dev on 30 Aug 2023 01:25 next collapse

It’ll be interesting to see which ones didn’t get picked up.

WidowsFavoriteSon@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 2023 04:32 next collapse

It’ll be the ones that paid their bills in time.

RobotToaster@infosec.pub on 30 Aug 2023 10:12 collapse

All the CIA/NSA ones will be mysteriously not picked up.

yacht_boy@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 2023 01:46 next collapse

This is both terrifying and hilarious at the same time. The last paragraph is so good.

In another indication of the operators working to potentially inefficient quotas, Meta noted that the pages it had on Facebook, with around 560,000 followers, “were likely acquired from spam operators with built-in inauthentic followers primarily from Vietnam, Bangladesh and Brazil” meaning the pages “that mainly posted in Chinese and English were almost exclusively followed by accounts from countries outside of their target regions.”

simonced@lemmy.one on 30 Aug 2023 03:19 next collapse

The fact that people get influenced on FB is a head scratcher to begin with…

darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 30 Aug 2023 04:10 collapse
Steeve@lemmy.ca on 30 Aug 2023 11:54 next collapse

They were actually able to confirm links to Chinese law enforcement as well, as far as I know this is the first time this sort of connection has been officially made instead of just speculating.

Magrath@lemmy.ca on 30 Aug 2023 12:46 collapse

Someone stop paying their bribe money to Meta. Guess they don’t turn a blind eye to this kinda shit unless they are getting paid to.