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Americans are now copying Russia and making hundreds of fake Facebook accounts to influence politics (FB)
Americans are now copying Russia and making hundreds of fake Facebook accounts to influence politics (FB)
Rob Price
Business InsiderOctober 11, 2018
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"Many were using fake accounts or multiple accounts with the same names and posted massive amounts of content across a network of Groups and Pages to drive traffic to their websites," Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook's head of cybersecurity, wrote.
Americans are now copying Russia and making hundreds of fake Facebook accounts to influence politics (FB)
Americans are now copying Russia and making hundreds of fake Facebook accounts to influence politics (FB)
Rob Price
Business InsiderOctober 11, 2018
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- Facebook has taken down 559 pages and 251 accounts that were part of coordinated campaigns to influence US politics.
- The accounts were run by Americans and are evidence of how malicious users in the US are increasingly copying the techniques Russian trolls used in the 2016 US election.
"Many were using fake accounts or multiple accounts with the same names and posted massive amounts of content across a network of Groups and Pages to drive traffic to their websites," Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook's head of cybersecurity, wrote.