Posted on Sep 2, 2020
Facebook And Twitter Remove Russia-Backed Accounts Targeting Left-Leaning Voters
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Facebook and Twitter said Tuesday that they had removed accounts linked to Russian state actors who tried to spread false stories about racial justice, the Democratic presidential campaign of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and President Trump's policies.
Researchers who have examined the operation said it attempted to steer left-leaning voters away from the Biden-Harris campaign in an way that echoes the Russian disinformation tactics that sought to depress progressive and minority support for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
"Russian actors are trying harder and harder to hide who they are and being more and more deceptive to conceal their operations," said Facebook's Head of Cybersecurity Policy Nathaniel Gleicher in an interview with NPR. "But there was very little attention paid to this operation."
Facebook said the Russian agents set up a site posing as an independent news outlet and managed to recruit "unwitting freelance journalists" to write stories that were shared by dozens of social media accounts created through artificial intelligence.
Researchers who have examined the operation said it attempted to steer left-leaning voters away from the Biden-Harris campaign in an way that echoes the Russian disinformation tactics that sought to depress progressive and minority support for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
"Russian actors are trying harder and harder to hide who they are and being more and more deceptive to conceal their operations," said Facebook's Head of Cybersecurity Policy Nathaniel Gleicher in an interview with NPR. "But there was very little attention paid to this operation."
Facebook said the Russian agents set up a site posing as an independent news outlet and managed to recruit "unwitting freelance journalists" to write stories that were shared by dozens of social media accounts created through artificial intelligence.
Facebook And Twitter Remove Russia-Backed Accounts Targeting Left-Leaning Voters
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Stalin was "friendly" as long as the Allies kicked in countless tons of material. He was conniving even then - for one thing, he didn't need a translator for English, but he had one. The Cold War did not end when the USSR fell apart. The Russian Bear is alive and well. The maps have changed a bit, names and faces have changed, not so much the way of life. Like China, they're just looking for ways to wreck the United States.
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