11/23/2022
US Military is Creating Fake Facebook and Instagram Accounts to Try and Trick People, Meta Says
The US military has been creating fake accounts on Facebook and Instagram in an attempt to trick people, parent company Meta has said.
Security experts at Meta found “several clusters” of fake accounts on the platform, which posed as apparently legitimate accounts. The accounts were present not only on Meta’s own platforms but across a range of other networks, including Twitter, YouTube and Telegram, it said.
they were used to push pro-Western narratives across the world, over a series of years, according to an investigation into the campaign.
“Although the people behind this operation attempted to conceal their identities and coordination, our investigation found links to individuals associated with the US military,” Meta said in its latest ‘Adversarial Threat Report’, which details the efforts of its security teams to stop such deceptive campaigns.
The posts were focused on a range of countries, it said: Afghanistan, Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Somalia, Syria, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Yemen.
But they had also proven largely unsuccessful. “The majority of this operation’s posts had little to no engagement from authentic communities,” it said.
Some of them were detected and disabled by automated systems even before humans had investigated them, it said.
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