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US Military Running Fake Social Media Accounts
« on: November 26, 2022, 04:47:50 pm »
US Military Running Fake Social Media Accounts

Posted on November 25, 2022 by tonyheller

“The operation ran across many internet services, including Twitter, YouTube, Telegram, VKontakte and Odnoklassniki. It included several clusters of fake accounts on our platforms, some of which were detected and disabled by our automated systems prior to our investigation. The majority of this operation’s posts had little to no engagement from authentic communities.”

“although the people behind this operation attempted to conceal their identities and coordination, our investigation found links to individuals associated with the US military.”

https://realclimatescience.com/2022/11/us-military-running-fake-social-media-accounts/
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Re: US Military Running Fake Social Media Accounts
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2022, 05:05:41 pm »
Meta claims US military link to online propaganda campaign
    By Chris Vallance,     Technology reporter
23 November 2022
BBC
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"Individuals associated with the US military" are linked to an online propaganda campaign, Meta's latest adversarial-threat report says.

The campaign was the first major covert pro-US propaganda operation taken down by a big-tech company, independent researchers said in August. It supported the US and its allies, while opposing countries such as Russia, China and Iran. But experts said it was largely ineffective.  ...

But most of the posts had "little to no engagement" from real users.

US think tank the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab managing editor Andy Carvin told the BBC when the campaign was first revealed, it would be "ineffective and counterproductive" for democracies to undertake such campaigns, because it meant using "the very tactics used by your adversaries" and "further eroding public trust".

Meta's announcement confirms previous reporting by the Washington Post. Sources told the newspaper concern over the operation had made the Pentagon complete "a sweeping audit" of how the US military conducted clandestine information warfare. ...
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Re: US Military Running Fake Social Media Accounts
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2022, 05:26:22 pm »
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So, some YouTube videos are really elements of a covert American pro-military propaganda influence campaign?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYE7gb51Xxk
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