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
My mom’s gonna be so mad her propaganda Trump memes are gone
Don’t worry, this was just the Chinese campaign. The Russian one is still going strong.
The fact that people get influenced on FB is a head scratcher to begin with…
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.”
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It’ll be the ones that paid their bills in time.
All the CIA/NSA ones will be mysteriously not picked up.
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.
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.
Huge and widespread, yet low-quality and ineffective. Kind of disturbing and amusing at the same time.
