Hopefully it’s a COVID-19 version of what it did post-2016 elections, when it required verification of those buying political or issue ads.
Tag Archives: fake accounts
Fake news Facebook accounts used coronavirus to attract followers
In April, the company yanked 1,887 misleading accounts, pages and groups tied to eight influencer networks building fake engagement.
Facebook purges hundreds of fake accounts from state actors, marketers
It removed 5 networks engaged in foreign or government interference in Egypt, India, Russia, Iran, and Myanmar/Vietnam. Some targeted the US.
Undercover reporter tells all after working for a Polish troll farm
Together with her troll colleagues, she managed 200 fake social profiles, promoted clients’ products, and trolled their competitors.
Facebook pulls fake news networks linked to Russia and Iran
It took down four foreign interference campaigns and announced initiatives to prevent foreign interference in US elections.
#FacebookLockout: Users who report fake/scam accounts locked out
Users report bad accounts, got presented with a request to verify ID, couldn’t upload said ID, and got frozen out.
Instagram became the preferred tool in Russia’s propaganda war
Facebook and Twitter got a lot of heat, but “Instagram’s appeal is that’s where the kids are, and that seems to be where the Russians went.”
15,000-strong army of Twitter robots found spreading cryptocurrency spam
Researchers unearthed an army of 15,000 robot Twitter accounts plying a cryptocurrency scam.
Facebook bans midterm-meddling accounts and pages
Facebook says it has removed 32 Pages and accounts from Facebook and Instagram for violating its policies.
Twitter boots 143K bad apps, throttles developer access to API
Devs now have to register and will be capped at 10 apps, and those apps are now on a diet: no more endless gorging on spam/bot-pestering/etc.