Thousands more russian troll farm accounts deleted
 

Alt-right hate fake nic trolls are a real problem online.

Facebook and Twitter Remove Thousands of Accounts Spreading Misinformation From Russia

Facebook and Twitter revealed Thursday that they had removed new misinformation campaigns from their platforms tied to Iran.

Facebook said it deleted a batch of accounts for engaging in “coordinated inauthentic behavior,” removing 783 pages, groups, and accounts with ties to Iran. Twitter removed a batch that included 418 accounts from Iran, as well as Venezuela and Russia.

Roughly 2 million accounts followed at least one of the Facebook pages, the company said. Another 1,600 accounts, according to Facebook, joined at least one of the groups, and over 254,000 accounts followed at least one of the now-removed Instagram accounts. The pages and accounts created eight Facebook events between May 2014 and May 2018, and spent around $30,000 on Facebook ads.

The company said it had identified the accounts after further investigating another set of Iranian accounts it removed last year.

Unlike many previous coordinated fake accounts identified by Facebook, which were in English, the Iranian batch posted mostly in Arabic, with fewer postings in French, Persian, and English, according to an independent analysis by the Atlantic Council, which received data on the accounts from Facebook before its public disclosure. Many of the accounts posed as local news outlets or as pages representing real-world social movements. The pages were often critical of Western countries, as well as Saudia Arabia and Israel, Iran’s rivals in the Middle East.

The accounts’ audiences were spread primarily across the Middle East and North Africa, and to a lesser extent, the United States.

Facebook’s chief of security, Nathaniel Gleicher, told reporters late on Thursday that the removals came in part as the result of coordination with Twitter, and that the two companies had shared information on suspicious accounts on both platforms before the removals.

Twitter said that 418 of the accounts it removed Thursday came from Russia and displayed behavior that “mimics the activity of prior accounts tied” to the Internet Research Agency, the Kremlin-linked troll farm, but said it could not definitively link the accounts to the group. The company noted that since August it has removed 2,617 additional accounts that it believes “may have origins in Iran,” as well as 1,196 accounts that it believed were the work of the government of Venezuela. (Many of the accounts tweeted out support of the country’s embattled president, Nicolas Maduro.)

“Through ongoing analyses and investigations, we continue to build on our contextual understanding of these networks of accounts to improve our ability to find and suspend this activity as quickly as possible in the future,” Twitter’s director of public policy, Carlos Monje Jr., wrote in a post. “This is particularly vital as groups such as the IRA evolve their practices in response to industry-wide suspension efforts.”

This is the second time in 2019 Facebook has acted to take down a similar network of accounts; on January 17, the company removed hundreds of accounts linked to Russian state news. Last year, Facebook uncovered several other disinformation campaigns, including accounts linked to Iran and Russia’s IRA.

Public awareness of such misinformation campaigns began to proliferate around the 2016 presidential election. After the campaign, Facebook revealed that Russian trolls had spread content organically to a vast group of followers and had spent $100,000 to purchase political ads, all in an attempt to influence American elections.

You are all no match for pooty...it takes just a few people to start a mexican wave...pooty will be rigging 2020 and 2024 and I hope 2028 as well...

Cape Verde police have detained 11 Russian sailors for the suspected smuggling of more than nine tonnes of cocaine headed to Morocco from Panama.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/...03-p50vcs.html

And don't forget...

Last February 389 kg of cocaine was found in the Russian embassy in Buenos Aires.

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I hope America is really sure these drugs flowing into your country are from Mexico and just not shipped via Mexico... food for thought.

Only an idiot doesn't know that. Weed was pretty much the only thing "from" Mexico; other than the bootlegs (if they still do them).

Then I supposed you'd agree that after passing though numerous countries, oceans, deserts, border patrols and changing hands multiple times from the cook the pimp the cartel and finally to the delivery man.... that no fucking wall is going to be any issue.

… back to my post. When I was in Spain, the Spanish throw a lot of mud at the Moroccans, just like America does at Mexico. "their all drug dealers and that's where all the drugs come from... if only we could get rid of the Moroccans.." And now it would seem that their being supplied those drugs from Russian interests, in fact they've been caught red handed.

Putin would label Bladewire Media as a US troll farm

Spoons make people fat and evil drug dealers make sniffany sniff all the cocaine...americans like drugs...mexicans are not to blame...russia is not to blame...sniffany is to blame...

congrats to zukerbegrger

I don't use, distribute or promote drugs....
But have had the belief for over 25 years that if they were somewhat legal, it would take the profit margin away from the bad actors who further corrupt our governments and streets.

Politics changes everything. Lobby money changes everything.
Look at the stiff talk about vaping when little proof it has harmed anyone.
Why ? Who does vaping hurt the most ? Tobacco Co's.
There is a even larger story in that but there is little space here to tell the story.

But contrast the power of money to influence the minds of the governed to manufactured passiveness.

If they really wanted to stop the large scale drug traffic, it would be done.
We all allow them to make excuses for why they can't do this.
Again... manufactured passiveness.

You will never receive what you do not demand.

Face it... nobody is serving your interest.

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Sounds like an extremely good news to me :thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup

I really hate these Prigozhn's shit eaters.

whats does it mean?

I see the troll farms manufacturing at a rate that is well past the ability to remove them.
It only takes a few good ones to be active for less than a day at a time to continuously make harm.

And that will re-enforce a bigger problem larger than identity theft,
and that is just identity to begin with.

Think about that the next time you fight a captcha while trying to log-in or stay logged-in to a site.

There was no will to address these issues 10-15 years ago and I still see no will to fix it now.
JUST SMALL TALK with no meaning, just bark, no teeth.

No, never until it is a catastrophe that hits us square in the face, and even then the folks that make money by tracking and saving all this personal information will lobby for little to no changes.

The trolls will be running around with real stolen information and/or accounts faster than you can detect them.
And you will have a increasingly harder time logging-in to your own real accounts, despite giving up more personal info to do so making it all worse yet.

Next they will want your bio-metric info and some may already have some of that. If you have a US drivers license, there is a database of 3D facial recognition data created for the FBI ready for the plucking, but will they tell you when there is a breach ? Retail has been using it, banks too. Security cams in mall's etc are most all of that quality for the info to be extracted. Facebook has been extracting the data from every photo and video for years. What is stopping anyone else ?

How long before Apple FaceID is 'worthless'.... I give it 3-5 more years. Easy Hacks in the name of cheap lazy ecommerce.

Good luck proving who you are by then with or without biometrics !

The trolls are only a leading indicator of a larger problem on it's way with the same roots.

Dear complete fucking moron,

I posted this the other day.. These "trolls" were "discovered" by the company that just got caught rigging the AL election by "posing as Russian trolls." In other words, they deleted themselves.

Sincerely,

Me

i understand now, its all perfectly clear

Did you actually read any of the article ? Let Me Help You !

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The accounts’ audiences were spread primarily across the Middle East and North Africa, and to a lesser extent, the United States.

Facebook’s chief of security, Nathaniel Gleicher, told reporters late on Thursday that the removals came in part as the result of coordination with Twitter, and that the two companies had shared information on suspicious accounts on both platforms before the removals.

Twitter said that 418 of the accounts it removed Thursday came from Russia and displayed behavior that “mimics the activity of prior accounts tied” to the Internet Research Agency, the Kremlin-linked troll farm, but said it could not definitively link the accounts to the group. The company noted that since August it has removed 2,617 additional accounts that it believes “may have origins in Iran,” as well as 1,196 accounts that it believed were the work of the government of Venezuela. (Many of the accounts tweeted out support of the country’s embattled president, Nicolas Maduro.)

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He is a Russian alt-right hate fake nic troll pretending to be American online :2 cents:

Excellent points to highlight :thumbsup

what you guys seem to not realize is that the trolling was working both ways. inciting and helping division for both sides, not just one.

the division was the goal, not to influence the vote.

Why do you pretend to have knowledge of what I know? Very odd :1orglaugh

Almost correct...
They incite both side to get them FIGHTING.
When a group announced a rally in some city, they would fake news some other group to get them to fight in the streets. Sometimes 3 or more groups.
Sometimes it was folks that often otherwise had 'little disrespect for each other'.

I have been at all levels of the workforce.
I remember a few 'CO-BOSSES' that would intentionally keep the different trades fighting with each other.
I asked why he was instigating things when I noticed it was all coming from him.
He said...
As long as they are fighting each other, they will not organize against us. But come to us for answers and a fix. We can be the 'GOOD GUYS' but need the mess to make that happen.

You never know where this shit comes from, but you have to know there is always a motive to make you move against your fellow man. Even if you can't figure out who is doing it, you must not give into it. you are doing their work for them.

When one dog barks, they all bark and most end up not knowing why they are really barking !

But in many cases, to motivate, you need to fake news them. That changes opinions or re-enforces them to a higher level of importance in their lives..

It seems politicians are telling the public 'what is important' to the public and that should be the other way around. They do not want to be the ones saying some of this shit,
...enter the 3rd party internet fake news to do the job.

Another Bladewire perhaps? :1orglaugh

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