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Facebook Fakers Get Better at Covering Tracks, Security Experts Say

posted by martyb on Monday August 06 2018, @04:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the cat-and-mouse dept.

Fnord666 writes:

Creators of fake accounts and news pages on Facebook are learning from their past mistakes and making themselves harder to track and identify, posing new challenges in preventing the platform from being used for political misinformation, cyber security experts say.

This was apparent as Facebook tried to determine who created pages it said were aimed at sowing dissension among U.S. voters ahead of congressional elections in November. The company said on Tuesday it had removed 32 fake pages and accounts from Facebook and Instagram involved in what it called "coordinated inauthentic behavior."

[...] Facebook said it had shared evidence connected to the latest flagged posts with several private sector partners, including the Digital Forensic Research Lab, an organization founded by the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank.

Facebook also said the use of virtual private networks, internet phone services, and domestic currency to pay for advertisements helped obfuscate the source of the accounts and pages. The perpetrators also used a third party, which Facebook declined to name, to post content.

Source: Reuters

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 06 2018, @04:55PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 06 2018, @04:55PM (#717897)

    I use facebook membership as a quick and dirty IQ test. If you're still on fb then you are a gullible fool that *should* be taken advantage of. And don't wail about how all your friends are there, or you only use it to stay in contact with family, or that you have to be there for work, or that you are somehow special and it will help you get noticed and make it big. Those are *excuses*, not reasons.

  • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday August 07 2018, @12:31AM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Tuesday August 07 2018, @12:31AM (#718049) Homepage Journal

    I use it, Rodrigo uses it, Narendra uses it. We love it, it's been INCREDIBLE for us. You don't use it, OK, save your money. You're not saving money, believe me. Because a newspaper ad goes to everybody that reads the paper. A TV ad -- I love making TV -- it goes to everybody that watches the TV show. It's not exact. And possibly a lot of folks see your ad, they don't like your message. Wasted money. Facebook gets your message to the folks that WANT to see your message. And maybe you have more than one message. You make so many ads. And Facebook shows each one to the right people. They call it Microtargeting & Psychographics, I call it WINNING. It's very exact. Not a lot of wasted money. And that's why this is the Age of Social Media!!!