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