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JUST OUT: @Facebook's monthly report on takedowns for coordinated inauthentic behaviour.

- Truth Media (global; @Graphika_NYC report to follow)
- Romania
- Iraq / Switzerland
- DRC
- Yemen

Around the world in 80 takedowns?

about.fb.com/news/2020/08/j…
Here's what we saw on Truth Media.

A network of pages run from many locations (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia...) amplified by fake accounts.

graphika.com/reports/truth-…
This was one kind of amplifier: accounts with stock shots as profile pictures, sometimes of young women...
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BREAKING: @Facebook just took down over 900 accounts, pages and groups associated with @TheBLcom and Epoch Media Group.

Report from @Graphika_NYC and @DFRLab coming shortly.

about.fb.com/news/2019/12/r…
One of the most interesting aspects was the way this network, which we call #OperationFFS, used AI-generated profile pictures.

Interesting, but remember: the network sent up many signals of fake behaviour. It takes a lot more than a fake profile pic to hide a fake campaign.
(#OperationFFS stands for "Fake Face Swarm", incidentally.

Thanks for asking.)
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