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Hacker group called Ghostwriter attempted to take over the social media accounts of Ukrainian military leaders

Hackers aligned with Russia broke into the social media accounts of dozens of Ukrainian military officers and were working to upload videos of defeated and surrendering Ukrainian soldiers when the plot was disrupted, according to a report Thursday from Meta that details a troubling increase in social media disinformation this year.

The company traced the effort to a shadowy hacker organization.

Hackers’ fake claims of Ukrainian surrender aren’t fooling anyone. So what’s their goal?

Rapeepong Puttakumwong/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A pair of social media misinformation campaigns exploiting tensions in Russia and Ukraine were identified and disabled on Facebook over the weekend, according to two senior leaders at the social network's parent company Meta. One operation thwarted by Meta's security team involved about 40 accounts described as "inauthentic" with some profile pictures suspected to have been generated artificially, Threat Disruption Director David Agranovich said Sunday night. The fictitious personas operated across the internet, the Meta empl...