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submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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[-] CodingAndCoffee@lemmy.world 47 points 10 months ago

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

[-] ElectroNeutrino@lemmy.world 52 points 10 months ago

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

[-] simonced@lemmy.one 19 points 10 months ago

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

[-] yacht_boy@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months 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.”

[-] Steeve@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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 9 points 10 months 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.

[-] Amphobet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 months ago

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

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