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Cybercriminals on the social network have moved to attacking users through smaller campaigns, after the social network started using automation to block hackers conducting high-volume operations.
The social media giant also found Russia and Iran to be the biggest purveyors of disinformation on its platforms, and decided to introduce an optional like count for users.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Disinformation campaigns are not new – think of wartime propaganda used to sway public opinion against an enemy. What is new, however, is the use of the internet and social media to spread these campaigns. The spread of disinformation via social media has the power to change elections, strengthen conspiracy theories, and sow discord. Steven Smith, a staff member from MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s Artificial Intelligence Software Architectures and Algorithms Group, is part of a team that set out to better understand these campaigns by launching the Reconnai...
Facebook has published a new report on the state of influence operations on its platform. The report covers fake account takedowns between 2017 and 2020.
Advertisement In a new report published on May 26, tech giant Facebook has presented a comprehensive look into how the platform has been used for covert influence operations. Covering a span of three years, from 2017 to the middle of this year, Facebook’s “The State of Influence Operations 2017-2020” report identifies the top five sources of global “coordinated inauthentic behavior” (CIB) campaigns. It draws on over 150 CIB operations that Facebook has identified, reported, and disrupted. The social media behemoth defines CIBs as a subset of influence operations, involving state or ...