Thread by @intermarium24

Ukraine Police have shut down bot farm. Officers detected more than 1.5 million accounts across various social media, email and instant messaging services. Which served to advance Russian propaganda.

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The materials released online contained, among other things, justifications for Russia's occupation of Ukraine. more than 100,000 SIM cards were used to register the said accounts. They were seized by police officers.

31 people involved in the activity were identified. In addition to SIM cards, more than 100 pieces of computer equipment, 150 cell phones and about 300 GSM gateways were confiscated.

This is part of a police operation called "Botoferma" you can verify this information, for example, on the official youtube of the Ukrainian police, which provides the full video and more details

Russians are building GSM gateways in Europe where they use local phone cards to register accounts on twiter, youtube or facebook - these accounts are then forwarded to headquarters in Moscow. where propagandists are busy manipulating comments on social media.

Russian bots farm and Sock puppet accounts are not a sci-fi. Here is further hard evidence of their existence. We cannot pass by this phenomenon indifferently. We also take part in the proxy-war. We need to communicate their existence and methods.

And how do they work? They strike at your culture, religion, views - they try to create information chaos. The most popular comment you see is not necessarily the most popular according to the majority of users - maybe is selected and liked by Russian bots.
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The Russians use social engineering, or more precisely they use a technique called 'Divide and Rule', which involves dividing people in order to more easily influence their behaviour. In doing so, they exploit various cognitive errors.

For those in the industry, this is a curiosity. How the Russians are bypassing the security of large Internet corporations. And that they were willing to do it.... this news will influence even better security of social networks against this type of attack.

By the way, isn't our account also suspicious?🤣