Meta accused the US military of developing a ``pro-American campaign'' with a fake account on Facebook
Meta's quarterly `` Hostile Threat Report '' revealed that the US military had hidden its identity on Facebook and Instagram and sent pro-American messages.
Meta's Adversarial Threat Report, Third Quarter 2022 | Meta
In a report published on November 22, 2022, Meta said, ``We have deleted 39 Facebook accounts, 16 pages, 2 groups, and 26 Instagram accounts in the United States for violating our policy on systematic misconduct. I did,' he announced.
According to Meta, these accounts were linked to US military personnel and were targeting Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Kazakhstan, etc. Also, not only Facebook and Instagram operated by Meta, Twitter and YouTube were also staged.
'Though the people behind this operation tried to hide their identities and the fact that it was a coordinated move, we found links to individuals associated with the U.S. military,' Meta said. He pointed out that US military personnel were secretly active on SNS.
The raids were carried out in collaboration with the Stanford University Internet Observatory (IO) and the social network analysis company Graphika. IO and Graphika also announced on August 24, 2022 that they had discovered that there had been five years of information manipulation targeting Middle Eastern and Central Asian countries.
Reportedly, these campaigns consistently pursued the interests of the United States and its allies while developing scenarios against anti-American countries such as Russia, China, and Iran. Russia, in particular, has been heavily criticized for killing innocent civilians by Russian soldiers because of its government's 'imperial ambitions' since its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and anti-extremist messages. was also sent. The Meta report confirms the involvement of US military personnel in these campaigns.
While the United States was sending messages against China and Russia on Facebook and Instagram, both countries are also manipulating information on SNS. China's campaigns send out a message to the world that 'China is good, America is bad', with a particular focus on recent US midterm elections and Czech foreign policy over Ukraine. In addition, it was said that political discussions in the United States, such as gun control and artificial abortion, were also mentioned.
However, it has been pointed out that the language was sloppy and the posting time was during the working hours of 9 am to 5 pm in China, that is, late at night in the United States.
They made mistakes. Their language wasn't great. They worked a 9-5 schedule, Chinese working hrs. So their “US” posts landed in the middle of the US night.
—Ben Nimmo (@benimmo) September 27, 2022
In addition, Russia disguised information as European media such as British news media The Guardian and German Spiegel. The details of these Chinese and Russian operations are covered in detail in the following articles.
Meta deletes related accounts on Facebook and Instagram as China and Russia have been conducting operations to adversely affect the United States and Ukraine - GIGAZINE
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