Russians boasted that just 1% of fake social profiles are caught, leak shows
An analysis of Russia’s effectiveness at boosting propaganda on social media platforms is part of a trove of documents recently leaked on the chat app Discord.
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An analysis of Russia’s effectiveness at boosting propaganda on social media platforms is part of a trove of documents recently leaked on the chat app Discord.
An analysis of Russia’s effectiveness at boosting propaganda on social media platforms is part of new trove of recently leaked US documents.
Latest disclosure includes claims that social media platforms detect false accounts only 1% of the time
Intelligence and tech safety specialists cautioned that the Russian agency whose claims helped form the basis for the leaked document may have exaggerated its success rate.
"The Russian government has become far more successful at manipulating social media and search engine rankings than previously known," reports the Washington Post, "boosting lies about Ukraine's military and the side effects of vaccines with hundreds of thousands of fake online accounts, according t...