This time, Russia’s misinformation crusade sought to sow the department among Democrats through leading readers on a fake left-wing news site, PeaceData, which described Biden-Harris’s price ticket as a team of conservatives, according to the knowledge revealed through Facebook.
Facebook announced that it had known the Kremlin-backed Russian Internet Investigation Agency crusade in August, after an FBI tip.
The Russians established a network of accounts and Facebook pages to generate traffic to PeaceData, which allegedly featured profiles of other fake people who looked like the site’s publishers who used to recruit genuine writers for the articles.
Although the report says the crusade “largely failed” and failed to generate significant follow-up, more than 700 articles have been published in PeaceData in English and Arabic since its inception in February this year, and Graphika, a social media analytics company contracted through Facebook to independently investigate the Array crusade warns that the Russian firm has used new techniques that may make it more difficult to identify interference in the future.
PeaceData on Tuesday night denied its connection to the Russian Internet Research Agency as “slander” in a reaction posted on its website, adding, “We are convinced that corporate media and their puppet masters need to destroy our journalism and silence us forever.”telling the fact about them … Don’t say a word about them.
Facebook said he used technical posters to link the crusade to the Russian Internet Search Agency and shared everything he knew with the FBI.
Since then, pages and accounts have been closed, but Facebook says it expects to “see more attempts like this from threatening actors around the world.”
Graphika reported that “the English content about Biden and Harris stands out for its hostile tone,” and that a “guest writer” accused the couple of ‘submission to right-wing populism… both to maintain careers and to win.». Another accused him of “apparent prejudices opposed to the Palestinians …[and] widespread racism.”
The Graphika report identifies 3 new disturbing disinformation methods that can be reused in the future: the use of synthetic intelligence to generate false profiles, the use of genuine authors to raise credibility to fake news, and targeting express communities.
The August crusade appears to be the first publicly known attempt to interfere with Russia before the 2020 election, lawmakers and intelligence officials have long warned that outdoor interference could become a challenge this year. Special Suggestion Bob Mueller’s research into Russian interference in 2016 revealed that until the end of the election, the Russian Internet Research Agency was able to succeed in millions of others through its social media accounts and US Participants.
126 million. The number of other people Facebook estimated that the Russian Internet Research Agency was able to succeed through its platform during the last election.Twitter announced separately that 1.4 million other people would have been in contact with controlled accounts.
“Unin Coordinated Real Behavior Report of August 2020” (Facebook)
“IRA again: the thirteen unfortunates” (Graphika)
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