Fb Monday introduced that it had eliminated a number of pretend pages, accounts and teams from a disinformation marketing campaign in opposition to Ukraine. It additionally warned about hackers’ elevated concentrating on of Ukrainian public officers as a part of the Russian invasion.
In a press release, the corporate mentioned within the earlier 48 hours it had found a “comparatively small community” of round 40 accounts, pages and teams on Fb and Instagram primarily based in Russia and Ukraine which had been violating its coverage in opposition to “coordinated inauthentic conduct.”
These pretend accounts masqueraded as web sites and created false identities with profile pictures generated by synthetic intelligence. The pretend accounts might be discovered on many platforms comparable to Twitter, Telegram, YouTube and Russian social networks Odnoklassniki or VK.
They posed as engineers and scientists, information editors and journalists and operated web sites that revealed claims about Ukraine being betrayed by the West, and Ukraine being an bancrupt state.
Fb additionally warned that it was seeing elevated concentrating on of Ukrainians together with public and army figures by the hacker group Ghostwriter utilizing fraudulent emails to realize entry to a person’s social media accounts.
It was found by the corporate that Fb had been hacked and used it to add YouTube movies displaying Ukrainian troops giving as much as Russia.
Fb urges all its Russian and Ukrainian customers to take further precautions to guard their accounts on-line and from hackers.
It’s nonetheless a narrative in progress.
