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That's 2.8 billion fake accounts Facebook had to delete. Billion. With a "B." Maybe don't go there for your news, guys. https://t.co/l3bnXuWbIS
— Hutch (@hutchinson) May 5, 2019
Facebook has 2.4 billion active users.
— David Fickling (@davidfickling) May 5, 2019
It took down *2.8 billion* fake accounts last year. https://t.co/NhW68x4xy1
Facebook has just announced a two new takedowns of fake Russian assets.
— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) May 6, 2019
The first takedown looks like standard IRA-like disinformation, mostly targeted at Ukraine.
The second is more interesting, including a targeted campaign against an official.https://t.co/jIU1ptbOh8
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking about serious social manipulation. https://t.co/zwvKK7LHv7
— Ed Bott (@edbott) May 6, 2019
Facebook has zero credibility till the day its CEO gives evidence to @CommonsCMS https://t.co/OMb4S4jiS5
— Ian Lucas MP (@IanCLucas) May 5, 2019
Two sets of accounts got taken down today, 90+ targeting Ukraine. 21 accounts focused on EU politics.
— Josh Russell (@josh_emerson) May 6, 2019
Removing More Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior From Russia – Facebook Newsroom https://t.co/ub3GQg8waF
Facebook has found more evidence of "coordinated inauthentic behavior" from Russian accounts. Some in Ukraine, some in Europe. https://t.co/jV2eFBnAWF
— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) May 6, 2019
"Coordinated inauthentic behavior" is corporate jargon for organized efforts to troll, spread & amplify disinformation using fake accounts.@Facebook announced more takedowns: https://t.co/rLMEPen0CT
— Alex Howard (@digiphile) May 6, 2019
In a military context, this would resemble "active measures."
Interesting timing ??https://t.co/NlJW5V0TGg
— Alaric Aloor ??⚽️? (@AlaricAloor) May 6, 2019
And ex FB CISO reaction https://t.co/t3hBMT4vIJ
CC: @MiaD @hessiejones @aselawaid
On new FB takedowns https://t.co/flMgU3iYCE. All of the below. https://t.co/GHMkeeAlK7
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) May 6, 2019
#FACEBOOK Removes Coordinated Inauthentic Accounts from #Russia—Pages & Groups of networks targeting #Austria, the #Baltics, #Germany, #Spain, #Ukraine, the #UK with #disinformation, fake news, #propaganda. #EU?? #elections are in weeks. https://t.co/SJXzXDQwRj h/t @alexstamos
— Paula Chertok? (@PaulaChertok) May 6, 2019
Up early this bank holiday Monday to join @AudreyCarville on Morning Ireland - Facebook have launched their operations room for #EP2019 in Dublin; FB has an important role to play but election integrity across Europe shouldn’t be left to a private company! https://t.co/g7bJji2vVE
— Liz Carolan (@LizCarolan) May 6, 2019
Inside Facebook's European election war room https://t.co/9ndMBLgXlc
— Will Goodbody (@willgoodbody) May 5, 2019
Spoke to @willgoodbody of @rtenews about some of the recent trends @Storyful has observed regarding #misinformation online, ahead of #EP2019https://t.co/zNPst4xf7I
— Padraic Ryan (@ryan_padraic) May 5, 2019
"Facebook has a lot of work to do to combat extremism and election interference on its platform. But that isn’t going to be solved by 40 people “hunched over” in a “war room” that’s clearly just set up for public relations purposes."https://t.co/9cs2zWdxGH
— Greg Otto (@gregotto) May 6, 2019
Cool!
— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) May 6, 2019
Facebook Invites Journalists to See New 'War Room,' Won't Let Them Ask Workers Questions https://t.co/VXQBFkNTN6
Facebook Invites Journalists to See New 'War Room,' Won't Let Them Ask Workers Questions https://t.co/oVxKFEnpfQ via @gizmodo
— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) May 6, 2019
when will facebook run out of outlets to fall for "reporting" on its "war room" https://t.co/b7r9J06Up6
— Casey Johnston (@caseyjohnston) May 6, 2019
Political groups from Hungary to Spain have been able to circumvent Facebook’s new political transparency tools to quietly buy partisan social media advertising aimed at swaying potential voters, according to an analysis by POLITICO. @markscott82 https://t.co/VC3CqFRYuM
— Lili Bayer (@liliebayer) May 5, 2019
Inside Facebook's European election war room https://t.co/ounyBbIK31
— toomas hendrik ilves (@IlvesToomas) May 5, 2019
Some thoughts on Facebook's European election advertising efforts from @markscott82 @mathver and I... https://t.co/5gUVyyFdeC
— Chloe Colliver (@ChloeColliver2) May 6, 2019
In a sparsely-decorated office in Dublin, @facebook staffers are working to protect the upcoming #EUElection2019. But POLITICO has found evidence of dozens of political ads that got through FB’s transparency net, raising the question: is FB doing enough?https://t.co/j7pdAVKmVb pic.twitter.com/pekQKprOOZ
— Mark Scott (@markscott82) May 5, 2019
With only weeks to go before #EUelections2019
— Defending Democracy (@DefendDemocracy) May 5, 2019
Many #PoliticalAds still escape @Facebook's scrutiny.#DefendingDemocracy #EP2019 #GDPR #BigTech #BigData #InfoWarshttps://t.co/vJY0AKXa1v pic.twitter.com/Pgt92mBbVT
Good to see RTE covering this - some great reporting too out from Politico who’ve been to see the Dublin operations centre, and have been doing some digging into how FB’s efforts are going https://t.co/EbN4AF1cZH
— Liz Carolan (@LizCarolan) May 6, 2019
Inside Facebook's EU non-war room election war room
— Ryan Heath (@PoliticoRyan) May 5, 2019
The social network created a team in Dublin to counter wrongdoing, but political ads and misinformation are still reaching voters.#EUelections2019 https://t.co/wMmdJoTaJC
Election inteference and #EUelections2019 ”with weeks to go until elections... Facebook has yet to publicly disclose any successful efforts that it has carried out to thwart digital campaigns focused on misleading European voters” https://t.co/jIxT2ArgpZ
— EUGenDem (@EUGenDem) May 6, 2019
“There are a set of actors that want to manipulate public debate," he told the @NYTimes https://t.co/rNWOcWSclc …as if corporations & states using marketing & propaganda to influence folks is novel, while obscuring what @Facebook is actually doing in a new EU elections "warroom" pic.twitter.com/0cJmq2VRc5
— Alex Howard (@digiphile) May 6, 2019
Facebook is eager to show it’s prepared for the European elections to be held later this month. I joined a media tour of its new election “war room” last week. https://t.co/W9w9x4EUuj via @nytimes
— Adam Satariano (@satariano) May 5, 2019
Who guards the guardians?
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 5, 2019
https://t.co/G9TGwBnPV7
Facebook opens EU election monitoring unit in Dublin https://t.co/j2jvTpDJfT
— Financial Times (@FT) May 5, 2019
Facebook opens 40-person EU election monitoring effort in Dublin https://t.co/01tY49OBJ0
— FT Companies (@ftcompanies) May 5, 2019
. @facebook: We removed 97 Facebook accounts, Pages and Groups that were involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior as part of a network emanating from Russia that focused on Ukraine.https://t.co/waJpi9h8T0
— Stop Fake (@StopFakingNews) May 7, 2019
Two new Russia-related takedowns: Facebook just removed a number of fake pages, groups, and accounts on Facebook and Instagram. The two sets are unrelated and not connected. The second set in particular is small at first glance—but also interesting https://t.co/iRe0l4ONvo
— Thomas Rid (@RidT) May 6, 2019
FB took down a network of fake accounts running pages and groups.
— Ben Nimmo (@benimmo) May 7, 2019
The core of the operation was @InfoPolk ("information regiment"): four separate pages pointing to different parts of the website of the same name.
FB statement here: https://t.co/orc59SGLgL
NEW: Facebook removed 118 pages, accounts, & groups involved in coordinated inauthentic activity as part of 2 separate Russian-backed operations. One targeted Ukraine; the other focused on Austria, the Baltics, Germany, Spain, Ukraine & the U.K.https://t.co/Aq82EmVt03
— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) May 6, 2019
What is the "nauthentic Behavior on facebook"?
— Elena Evdokimova (@elenaevdokimov7) May 7, 2019
Censors found accounts that shared political articles , posted ads , wait for it, $1 worth, and then banned them from FB - not only the above mentioned accounts but also those who FOLLOWED those accounts. https://t.co/jP9pukaClL pic.twitter.com/seDF1G0bvq
Removing More Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior From Russia | Facebook Newsroom - Facebook is taking down an inauthentic network or two every week it seems. https://t.co/Tdb4yiH4OT
— Clint Watts (@selectedwisdom) May 6, 2019
Showing extent of Russian effort targeting Ukraine: "We removed 97 Facebook accounts, Pages and Groups that were involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior as part of a network emanating from Russia that focused on Ukraine"
— Taras Kuzio (@TarasKuzio) May 7, 2019
https://t.co/g1ASiB6KJk
Welcoming step, but the proof will be in the pudding: Facebook Opens a Command Post to Thwart Election Meddling in Europe https://t.co/tPIBWULNAX
— Kestas Vaskelevicius (@VaskeleviciusK) May 7, 2019
FB's new "war room" in Europe. Wonder who they're at "war" with? ?https://t.co/70SRAO7MoZ
— Demeter (@14Demeter) May 7, 2019
Facebook announces that it won't allow Golden Dawn representatives on the platform even though it sits at about 7% in the polls in Greece.
— Diversity Macht Frei (@Czakal) May 7, 2019
“There are today elected representatives that are not allowed on the platform, like Golden Dawn in Greece."https://t.co/g06j41W4q6 https://t.co/73OYQ9gnzv