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Facebook Battles Cyber Campaigns Targeting Ukraine


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By AFP on April 07, 2022

 

Facebook's parent company Meta on Thursday said Russian state actors and others are relentlessly trying to use the social network against the Ukraine with deception, hacking and coordinated bullying campaigns.

Social media networks have become one of the fronts in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, home to sometimes misleading information but also real-time monitoring of one of the biggest geopolitical crises in decades.

"Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, our teams have been on high alert to detect and disrupt threats and platform abuse, including attempts to come back by networks we removed before," Meta said in its latest threat report.

 

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MunkeyMan
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Russia using social media for propaganda - a surprise to absolutely nobody.


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Glad they are no longer turning a blind eye to it in the US but I suppose after the russians secured an Orange President they would watch more closely. No one wants that again. 


Kitkat737
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This is super sad, I’m not surprised at all. Facebook is such an easy tool for them to use to spread propaganda. 


MunkeyMan
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Kitkat737 wrote:

This is super sad, I’m not surprised at all. Facebook is such an easy tool for them to use to spread propaganda. 

Always has been


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