Facebook False dismantled accounts that had thousands interested in gathering

False users on social networks are as prevalent as spam and at least as dangerous as political ads bought by the Russians from the Internet Search Agency (IRA) – and they try to obscure the sponsors. Facebook has now removed dozens of accounts for "coordinated inauthentic behavior," including creating an event in Washington next week that had more than 3,000 actual people responding to the event, the network shared the Tuesday, July 31st. However, know who is behind these accounts, one of the pages created a "No Unite The Right 2" event that got the support of five actual pages as co-hosts.

Facebook removed 32 accounts badociated with these coordinated efforts, including eight Pages, 17 profiles and seven Instagram accounts. While a handful had fewer than 10 followers, the group had over 290,000 followers, created 9,500 organic messages, and spent about $ 11,000 on advertising.

The most popular pages included Aztlan Warriors, Black Elevation, Mindful Being and Resisters. Examples of messages from the deleted pages ranged from anti-Trump to messages supporting women's rights. These fake pages have been responsible for about 30 events, the largest attracting the attention of 4,700 accounts and 1,400 confirmed being present.

An event scheduled for August 10 by the false list of resisters claimed to be a protest against a second Unite The Right rallying. Last year, the white supremacist rally Unite the Right unleashed a riot that caused a death. According to USA Today, the organizer of this original rally, Jason Kessler, has applied for a permit for the first anniversary of the event for Charlottesville, Virginia and Washington DC, but has been denied.

With the help of five actual pages, the "No Unite the Right 2 – DC" allowed 2,600 users to touch the "Interested" icon of the event, and 600 have said that they were going to the event.

Facebook says the pages and profiles were even more adept at covering their tracks. IRA – Facebook still does not know who is behind the fake contact pages. The network said that some of the pages were compatible with what the IRA has tried, others have used different methods. Inauthentic pages, for example, paid third parties to get advertisements out for them and used virtual private networks or VPNs.

"Since these bad actors are now working harder to obscure their identity, we have to find every little mistake they make.That's why we track thousands of leads, including information from law enforcement and lessons learned from the IRA investigation of last year, "writes Nathaniel Gleicher, head of Facebook's cyber security policy

. law enforcement in the United States as well as other technology companies and the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, an organization that helps Facebook badyze abuses.

Facebook says that "security It's not done "improvements, as are the bad actors trying to get an audience on the platform." We face determined and well-funded opponents who will never give up and who constantly change tactics eu, "wrote Facebook." It is an arms race and we must constantly improve ourselves. That's why we are investing heavily in more people and better technologies to prevent bad actors from abusing Facebook – and are working much more closely with law enforcement and other forces. technology companies to better understand the threats we face.

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