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Alessio Durante via nexa <[email protected]> writes:

>  From CSO Online: 
> https://www.csoonline.com/article/3680559/meta-outlines-us-involvement-in-social-media-disinformation-in-new-report.html

«Meta outlines US involvement in social media disinformation in new
report»

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The social media giant’s latest quarterly adversarial threat report
describes three coordinated disinformation networks, one of which
appears to originate from the US.

A report released by Meta’s security team describes the company’s
shutdown of a network of Facebook and Instagram accounts participating
in what it calls coordinated inauthentic behavior, and linking some of
those accounts to the US military.

“Coordinated inauthentic behavior” is Meta’s term for misinformation
activity performed by groups of social media accounts on its platforms
that target particular groups or demographics. [...]

[...] the areas it targeted, which included Iran, Central Asia, the
Middle East and North Africa. Different clusters of the network,
according to Meta, talked up particular themes in its content, ranging
from culture and sports in specific countries to criticism of China,
Iran and Russia.

The people making posts via this network tried to appear as locals in
the target countries, and used a wide array of different social media
channels, including Twitter, YouTube, Telegram and VKontakte, as well as
different websites and blogs. Many posts were written in Arabic, Russian
and Farsi, and concerned news and current events, praised the US
military and criticized Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The network was first described publicly by researchers at social media
analytics firm Graphika and the Stanford Internet Observatory in
August. In total, 39 Facebook accounts, two Groups, 16 Pages and 26
Instagram accounts were said to be involved in the network, which spent
around $2,500 on Facebook ads.

When asked for its response, the US Department of Defense said only that
it was aware of the report and would offer no further comment on the
matter.

 * China, Russia also involved in misinformation campaigns

Similar networks, one with its roots in China and another apparently
based in Russia, were also taken down in Meta’s latest action. The
Russian network was substantially larger than the US and Chinese
efforts, with 1,633 suspect accounts on Facebook and $105,000 in ad
spending. The Russian and Chinese networks were both publicly reported
by Meta in September, but included in the most recent quarterly report
as well.

“In each case, people coordinate with one another and use fake accounts
to mislead others about who they are and what they are doing,” Monday’s
report said. “When we investigate and remove these operations, we focus
on behavior rather than content – no matter who’s behind them, what they
post or whether they’re foreign or domestic."

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Saluti, 380°

-- 
380° (Giovanni Biscuolo public alter ego)

«Noi, incompetenti come siamo,
 non abbiamo alcun titolo per suggerire alcunché»

Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice
but very few check the facts.  Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org>.

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