{"id":5412,"date":"2022-09-28T01:03:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T01:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/?p=5412"},"modified":"2022-09-28T01:23:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T01:23:53","slug":"meta-clamps-down-propaganda-network-operating-in-russia-and-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/meta-clamps-down-propaganda-network-operating-in-russia-and-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Clamps Down Propaganda Network Operating in Russia and China"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meta<\/a>, the parent company of Facebook, revealed on Tuesday that it has discovered and taken down two distinct networks of false accounts involved in covert propaganda operations from Russia and China.<\/p>\n

In a company announcement<\/a>, Meta disclosed that the Chinese-origin influence operation ran across multiple social media platforms, and was the first one to target US domestic politics ahead of the 2022 midterm polls and Czechia\u2019s foreign policy toward China and Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The propaganda campaign \u200binvolved some 80 accounts on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter that planned to provoke conflict over controversial issues like abortion and gun control.<\/p>\n

\u200b\u200b\u201cWhat this operation was doing was targeting US domestic politics, targeting both sides,\u201d Meta global threat intelligence lead Ben Nimmo\u200b said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd it\u2019s the first time we\u2019ve seen that from a Chinese operation in this way. So even though it was small, even though we caught it early, it\u2019s a significant change in what we\u2019ve seen from Chinese operations,\u201d Nimmo said. \u200b<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

According to a local Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior or CIB report<\/a>, the Russian network \u2014 the largest of its kind Meta has disrupted since the war in Ukraine began \u2014 targeted primarily Germany, France, Italy, Ukraine, and the UK with narratives focused on the war and its impact through a sprawling network of over 60 websites impersonating legitimate news organizations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe shared information with our peers at tech companies, security researchers, governments, and law enforcement so they too can take appropriate action. At the end of our full report, we\u2019re also including threat indicators to help the security community detect and counter malicious activity elsewhere on the internet,\u201d the social media company said.<\/p>\n

This is the largest and most complex Russian operation that Meta has disrupted since the war in Ukraine began. The company has revealed it has discovered that the campaign also ran a sprawling network of over 60 websites impersonating news organizations, as well as accounts on\u00a0 Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Telegram, Twitter, Change.org, Avaaz, and LiveJournal.<\/p>\n

Although the campaign influence operations were started in China, Meta claimed it was unable to identify the extent of the Chinese government’s participation. \u200b<\/p>\n

The people who created the fake identities “mostly adhered to a shift pattern that aligned with a 9-to-5, Monday through Friday work schedule during working hours in China,” the\u00a0tech giant\u00a0claims.<\/p>\n

Meta also explained that the propaganda machinery was operating and publishing at a time when the majority of Americans were asleep.<\/p>\n

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