4 days agoFacebook prevents an intervention in US presidential elections
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)Social Network “Facebook” has announced on Monday that it has blocked four foreign operations of origin from Russia and Iran, which were intended to conduct various interventions, including an operation for intervention in the 2020 presidential elections in the United States. According to the Agency for Internet Research, campaigns [...]
According to the Agency for Internet Research, suspicious campaigns were prepared in a way that has been forwarded with continuous steps of operational security to hide the identity and location of authors.
This operation was planned to be carried out through 50 network accounts “Instagram” and a network account “Facebook”, which had about 246 thousand followers. Some 75 thousand different posts were expected from these accounts, according to the company “Graphika”, which handles social networking tests.
These sites had different names and identities, including support of the American president, opposition to police violence and support of candidate Bernie Saunders.
Most of the posts were not openly linked to election policy, but they concerned general development policy and the presentation of important figures.
These suspicious accounts, to be more reliable, initially distributed real materials and content created by internet users in the United States, wrote the Guardian”, broadcast Express Journal.
