Facebook reportedly removed more than 600 accounts that were tied to a pro-President Donald Trump conspiracy website apparently used to push conspiracies and fake news. that the Epoch Times used artificial intelligence to push a variety of political stories through a network run by Vietnamese users pretending to be Americans on the site in addition to 89 pages, 156 groups, and 72 Instagram accounts that amassed over 55 million followers.
Facebook's head of security policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, told NBC News that the company observed what they believed to be "a US-based media company leveraging foreign actors posing as Americans to push political content."The accounts pushed "anti-impeachment" and "pro-Trump" messages with AI-generated faces atop their profiles, which Gleicher said can be detected by the site's automatic monitoring for fake accounts.
This is the latest run-in with Facebook the pro-Trump conspiracy website since August, when it was banned from buying ads after
Most people know this but it’s nice to see in print.
like russiagate?
I wonder what their first clue was