Before the November elections … Facebook has arrested about thirty accounts and pages that they describe as "unauthentic". Sam Berman of Veuer has complete history. Buzz60
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SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook has detected a secret campaign to influence the world. November session targeting social issues, raising the possibility that Russia is again trying to interfere in US elections
The 32 fake pages and accounts were created between March 2017 and May 2018 and were discovered there two weeks ago, The social media giant said Tuesday:
The eight Facebook pages, 17 Facebook profiles and seven Instagram accounts have not been permanently linked to Russia or the Internet Research Agency, and Facebook will leave this determination to the forces of order. , Said Facebook's security chief, Alex Stamos.
Intelligence services and law enforcement officials warned that Russia would participate in this year's elections as in the 2016 presidential elections.
More than 290,000 Facebook accounts followed the pages "Aztlan Warriors", "Black" Elevation, "Mindful Being" and "Resisters". Facebook pages did not push specific candidates before half-time, but sought to anger controversial issues such as race and immigration.
Collectively, fake pages spent about $ 11,000 for 150 ads on Facebook and Instagram, which were paid in US and Canadian dollars, and were placed between April 2017 and June 2018. The fake pages also created more than 9,500 Facebook posts and one on Instagram.
"The purpose of these operations is to sow discord, mistrust and division in an attempt to undermine the public faith in our institutions and our political system.The Russians want a weak America," said in a statement. Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr, RN.C. "Much remains to be done to prevent and counter foreign interference in social media."
Facebook Stamos said at a news conference conference call with reporters. A known IRA account was briefly – for about seven minutes – the co-admin of one of the Facebook pages before the account was removed from Facebook.
"Some of the tools, techniques, and procedures of this actor are consistent with those we've seen from IRA in 2016 and 2017," Stamos said. it's the IRA with enhanced capabilities or a separate group, based on what we know today. "
He added later:" In these situations, it is possible that we never have a good assignment to a specific group or country. "
The tactics deployed in the Facebook campaign were surprisingly similar to Russia's interference in the presidential election, but were more carefully disguised," said Facebook. "The fake pages used VPNs, Internet telephony services and third parties to buy advertisements.
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"It is clear that the one who created these accounts went much further to obscure their true identities than the Russian-based Internet Research Agency, "said Sandberg." We face determined and well-funded opponents who will not give up and who will change Constantly tactical. "
As during and after the 2016 presidential election, fake accounts have attempted to entice Facebook users to participate in actual political events
Since May 2017, about thirty events have been created. The largest event had 4,700 customers interested in participating and 1,400 users who said they would participate. About half had less than 100 accounts that expressed an interest in attending
For more: Russian commercials on Facebook have ignited Hispanic tensions after the election of Trump [19659008] Facebook decided to warn the public that this would normally be because an event promoted by the "Resistant" page to protest against "Unite the Right" was scheduled for August 10 in Washington.
False administrators connected with the administrators from five legitimate pages to co-organize the counterproposal at the white nationalist meeting. According to Facebook, these pages have unwittingly sparked interest in the event and posted useful information on transport and locations
The event was disabled Tuesday and Facebook has notified 2,600 Facebook users who had expressed interest in participating.
In addition, the Kremlin continues to exploit platforms like Facebook to sow division and spread misinformation, and I am pleased that Facebook is taking steps to identify and address this activity, "said Senator Mark Warner Senior Democratic Leader of the Senate In a statement, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., said on Tuesday that Congress was considering various legislative proposals aimed at strengthening electoral security, but that the government was not going to vote. Trump's administration "is not enough"
.] "I think we must do everything we can to stop this," he said.
Facebook has stepped up efforts to identify and eliminate bad actors r The Russian-based Internet Research Agency sowed conflict during and after the presidential campaign.Legislators strongly criticized Facebook for failing to prevent the interference
Artificial intelligence and other human evaluators have been deployed to spot suspicious activities in the run-up to the mid-term elections. Facebook now forces US political advertisers to sign up before placing advertisements and publishes all political ads in a public database.
Facebook claims that fake pages have not been able to place Facebook ads after the introduction of the new registration system. "From what we can see, they have tried to launch an ad after setting up our ad tool," said Nathaniel Gleicher, director of Facebook's cyber security policy. "This ad did not work and they did not make any other attempt."
Earlier this month, Gleicher declined to directly answer questions about whether Facebook had detected Russian interference at mid-point. We will continue to try to abuse our platform before mid-term, probably mid-way, after mid-term, and around other events and elections, "he said. "We are continually looking for this type of activity, and as we find things, what we think inevitable, we will inform the forces of order, and where we can, the public. "
Democrats and analysts by USA TODAY showed Russian agents focused on running during the presidential election in what the experts say was a clear effort to amplify existing divisions.
They did not In the first half of 2017, as President Trump moved aggressively to restrict immigration, fake Facebook pages set up by a Russian propaganda operation began to air ads on both sides. of the debate on the immigration
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