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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
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 06 2018, @05:19AM (4 children)
These days they take a picture of a person in public, create a facebook account, create a grindr account. Just for fun.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 06 2018, @05:26AM (1 child)
I am Prince Bohar of Senegal, son of the... nevermind. I am actually Ted Smith (body-builder image from unsplash)... Er, Ok - I *really* am Anish S. from a "call center" in "Southern Asia". I am currently sitting in an Internet "cafe" in Thailand with my friend Igor V. from a country North of us....
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 06 2018, @08:06AM
Are you looking for help moving your millions out of the country before your brother marries you off to a very ugly no longer rich bitch daughter who lost their wealth in an oil scam who is now marrying you for your title and wealth so you really have to leave immediately please call you now?
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday August 06 2018, @11:50AM (1 child)
The story's hardly surprising, it's typical preditor/prey evolution. Not sure which one's the preditor here, though.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 06 2018, @01:43PM
Why take a photo rather than just cropping one out of a rando photo on the internet?
Because this exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_image_search [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 06 2018, @04:55PM (1 child)
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
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!!!