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

  • simonced@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

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

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    1 year ago

    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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    1 year ago

    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.