Sentences with phrase «russian fake accounts»

Earlier this week, we took down a large network of Russian fake accounts that included a Russian news organization.

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While Mark Zuckerberg testified before the Senate Tuesday in the wake of his company's entanglement with Cambridge Analytica, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced that the forum - based site had discovered and banned nearly a thousand accounts run by the same Russian trolls that were accused of attempting to sway political opinions on Facebook through politically charged advertising, fake news, and other posts.

But they will make it a lot harder for anyone to do what the Russians did during the 2016 election and use fake accounts and pages to run ads.

Critics blamed Facebook for the spread of misinformation during the election, and Russian agents also used fake social media accounts to share divisive content in the U.S.

In addition to spreading fake news, Russian Facebook accounts went one step further by organizing events, rallies, and protests, some of which galvanized dozens of people.

Facebook announced today that its internal investigation revealed fake Russian accounts bought at least $ 100,000 of political ads during the 2016 election season.

The Russian desk, which was primarily made up of bots and trolls, used fake social - media accounts to flood the internet with pro-Trump agitprop and made - up news throughout the US presidential campaign, especially in the days leading up to the November election.

SAN FRANCISCO Facebook is expanding its response to people using the platform improperly and on Tuesday said it had deleted hundreds of Russian accounts and pages associated with a «troll factory» indicted by U.S. prosecutors for fake activist and political posts in the 2016 U.S. election campaign.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 3 Facebook is expanding its response to what it sees as malicious actors using the platform improperly and on Tuesday said it had deleted hundreds of Russian accounts and pages associated with a «troll factory» indicted by U.S. prosecutors for fake activist and political posts in the 2016 U.S. election campaign.

Fake news was also a key issue in the 2016 vote, with special counsel Robert Mueller indicting 13 Russians in February for using bogus social media accounts to interfere in the election process.

The effort is part of Facebook's reaction to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, when Russian - sponsored actors attempted to intervene by posting ads — as well as using fake users, accounts and groups.

Those systemic problems have dramatically worsened since the presidential election, with Facebook coming under intense fire on multiple fronts: Russian operatives using Facebook to manipulate voter sentiment during the presidential election, Facebook accounts spreading «fake» news, the potential for its advertising system to be used for racist targeting and its slow response to violent or harmful content on the platform.

«There are many others that our systems catch which are more difficult to attribute specifically to Russian intelligence, but the number would be in the tens of thousands of fake accounts...»

On Facebook and Twitter, Russian fingerprints are on hundreds or thousands of fake accounts that posted anti-Hillary Clinton messages.

For instance, one of the Russian - backed ads featured a famous black - and - white photograph of the Black Panthers from 1968 to get African - American users to follow a fake Russian account called Blacktivist.

At this point, it's pretty much common knowledge that Russian operatives used Facebook to influence the 2016 presidential election by creating fake news accounts that sold divisive political ads and...

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The Russian troll farm that bought ads pointing to fake news sites on Facebook also ran a fake Twitter account impersonating the Tennessee Republican Party.

But they will make it a lot harder for anyone to do what the Russians did during the 2016 election and use fake accounts and pages to run ads.»

In February, special counsel Robert Mueller said that Facebook had been infiltrated by fake Russian accounts supporting Donald Trump.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 3 Facebook is expanding its response to what it sees as malicious actors using the platform improperly and on Tuesday said it had deleted hundreds of Russian accounts and pages associated with a «troll factory» indicted by U.S. prosecutors for fake activist and political posts in the 2016 U.S. election campaign.

But Representative Adam Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said he would like to know exactly what the company has done to find covert Russian activity and what it has discovered so far about fake accounts — including their reach and impact.

Less than a month later, in May, Time reported that Russian agents had created fake accounts on Facebook and Twitter and had bought ads on Facebook in an attempt to manipulate American social media users.

SAN FRANCISCO Facebook is expanding its response to people using the platform improperly and on Tuesday said it had deleted hundreds of Russian accounts and pages associated with a «troll factory» indicted by U.S. prosecutors for fake activist and political posts in the 2016 U.S. election campaign.

But they will make it a lot harder for anyone to do what the Russians did during the 2016 election and use fake accounts and pages to run ads,» Zuckerberg said in the announcement, posted to Facebook.

The new A.I. tools we built after the 2016 elections found, I think, more than 30,000 fake accounts that we believe were linked to Russian sources who were trying to do the same kind of tactics they did in the U.S. in the 2016 election.

Accepting that these steps by themselves won't stop all people trying to game the system, the Facebook CEO said it will, however, make it a lot harder for anyone to do «what the Russians did during the 2016 election and use fake accounts and pages to run ads».

In a Facebook post discussing the move, CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote that since discovering the Russian interference, the company had «improved our techniques to prevent nation states from interfering in foreign elections, and we've built more advanced AI tools to remove fake accounts more generally.»

He also said that Facebook plans to increase the number of staff working on security issues to 20,000 people by the end of the year, to do things like ferret out fake accounts created by Russian trolls.

Facebook announced today that it sold $ 100,000 worth of ads to a sketchy network of fake Russian accounts between June 2015 to May 2017, a period spanning the 2016 election cycle.

Twitter will need to explain to Congress how its platform was used by Russian trolls attempting to influence the U.S. presidential election, and Facebook ought to make political ads purchased by fake Russian accounts public, the senator said.

«For many months now, I have been pushing Facebook to more aggressively investigate and identify Russian - linked fake accounts on their platform,» Sen. Mark Warner, a Democrat from Virginia, said in an emailed statement.

Over the next two years, the indictment said, the Russians stole the identities of real Americans to create fake personas and fake accounts on social media.

Researchers said that those tools are still widely available and that while the company has worked to remove fake accounts and stem the flow of disinformation, it has refused to let outside researchers examine the data on how Russian actors used the platform so effectively.

Apparently, a known Russian front company managed to use «Facebook's event management tool to remotely organize and promote political protests in the U.S., including an August 2016 anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim rally in Idaho,» which were promoted using ads paid for by the same network of fake accounts.

Alleged to be a state - sponsored organization, the IRA is notorious for creating fake accounts, fake pages, fake comments, fake everything to steer people towards a certain view or belief that ultimately benefits the Russian government.

He said: «No work has been done by Facebook to look for other fake accounts and pages that could be linked to Russian - backed agencies and which were active during the EU referendum, as I requested.»

Mark Zuckerberg wrote that the steps alone «won't stop all people trying to game the system, But they will make it a lot harder for anyone to do what the Russians did during the 2016 election and use fake accounts and pages to run ads».

«The new AI tools we built after the 2016 elections found, I think, more than 30,000 fake accounts that we believe were linked to Russian sources who were trying to do the same kind of tactics they did in the US in the 2016 election.

Democratic lawmakers in recent days had demanded that Facebook be more open about what it knows and to dig more deeply into its troves of data to analyze the propaganda effort, which the company has acknowledged involved at least 470 fake accounts created by a shadowy Russian company that spent more than $ 100,000 targeting U.S. voters.

Warner said he believes the full impact of the 470 fake Russian accounts and pages remains unknown and likely has been downplayed by Facebook.

San Francisco, California — Reports last Thursday revealed U.S. speculation that Russians were making fake Facebook accounts to spy on the political campaign of French President Emmanuel Macron.