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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Meta caught an Israeli marketing firm running hundreds of fake Facebook accounts

www.engadget.com

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Meta caught an Israeli marketing firm running hundreds of fake Facebook accounts

www.engadget.com

return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Meta caught an Israeli marketing firm using fake Facebook accounts to run an influence campaign on its platform, the company said in its latest report on coordinated inauthentic behavior.
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  • kitnaht@lemmy.world
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    I mean, they’ve been all over Reddit running accounts for decades at this point, no? At this point I feel like 75% of my interactions on mainstream sites are going to be from foreign agents and/or bots.

    • WanderingVentra@lemm.ee
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      They’ve got to be at least 75% of /r/worldnews.

      • filister@lemmy.world
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        They simply ban you there for a mere criticism of Israel, which has nothing to do with their T&C. By now this subreddit turned into an echo chamber of likely minded bots and trolls.

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          They will site ban you for reporting the shill accounts too, even when they’re flagrantly violating the TOS.

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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      You can trust me. I am human.

      On a completely unrelated matter have you thought about therapy but don’t have the time to see a therapist in person? Try Better Help.

  • GodlessCommie@lemmy.world
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    And they keep telling us Russia and China are the threat we need to be afraid of

    • MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io
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      The real enemy was marketing this whole to time.

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        “He’s going after that anti-marketing dollar, that’s a lucrative market.”

    • BlueBockser@programming.dev
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      Wait till you find out what Russia and China are doing on Facebook

      • GodlessCommie@lemmy.world
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        What they might be doing is still not as much a threat to society as what the US and its allies do.

        • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          Why not both?

  • cerement@slrpnk.net
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    forget to pay your bill and Zuck will throw you to the wolves

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      Yeah. I’m not buying for a minute that anything was “discovered”, other than that they didn’t pay their protection bill. Meta/Facebook seems to have tolerated worse and more obvious abuses for decades.

  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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    I just assumed that almost all activity on faceboot are bots.

    • BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world
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      Bots and grandparents getting fleeced by bots.

      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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        But how can we say no to helping the Prince of Nigeria!?

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    Any post about Israel on Threads still has a comment section filled with non-posting accounts that only comment water-muddying dreck about Hamas.

    It’s rampant. Hasbara is busy.

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