[ad_1] “In total, our team has found and removed about a dozen deceptive campaigns connected to individuals associated with the IRA,” Facebook wrote in an update. “The IRA-linked campaign we removed in August was largely unsuccessful on Facebook, but it tricked unwitting freelance journalists into writing stories on its behalf.” Similarly, Twitter said that it […]
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Trump confirms cyberattack against Russian trolls during 2018 midterms
[ad_1] The 2018 US attack on Russia was reportedly meant to disrupt efforts to cast doubt on the legitimacy of midterm results, which saw the Democrats regain control of the House of Representatives. The confirmation is a change of tune for Trump. He previously claimed that Russia had stopped cyberattacks agains the US and has […]
Facebook and Twitter take down accounts linked to Russian troll farm
[ad_1] Though the social media accounts were using familiar tactics — spreading inflammatory memes in an effort to “sow discord” — the IRA went to new lengths to disguise its involvement. Rather than operating the accounts out of Moscow, as they did in 2016, the accounts were run by groups in Ghana and Nigeria, according […]
US sanctions two Russians for meddling in 2018 midterm elections
[ad_1] Thanks to the Mueller Report, we know that the IRA exposed 126 million Americans on Facebook to Russian-backed propaganda during the 2016 US presidential election. The group attempted to use disinformation to sway the 2018 midterm elections, too. US Cyber Command took the IRA offline on the day of the elections, and the Department […]
Russia worked hard to recruit social media users to campaign for Trump
[ad_1] According to the report, the IRA had dozens of employees who were responsible for “operating accounts and personas” on all these social media sites. The IRA referred to these employees as “specialists,” and they were in charge of creating pages that pretended to be personal accounts of people in the US and, later, fake […]