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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2018.Facebook faces big challenge to prevent future U.S. election meddling
By David Ingram and Dustin Volz SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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lostrune2
That'll be harder to do now that we find out how more sophisticated the trolls try to infiltrate Facebook
This is not your garden-variety trolls making up fake personas in the basement to try to illicit reactions on the Web
This is a sophisticated operation where they spent a lot of money and resources to actually buy real people's identities without their knowledge, set up VPN servers in the US, etc. and yes even criminal - stealing real people's SSNs, opening financial accounts under their names, etc.
"Russia’s troll identities were more sophisticated than anyone thought"
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/16/17021684/facebook-twitter-mueller-russia-troll-factory
So to anyone outside, the trolls just look like other Americans posting in America
Trump has just changed his tune from "there's no Russian involvement and thus no collusion" to "just no collusion" (accepting that Russia started their anti-US campaign in 2014)
These indictments mean Mueller's investigations won't be going away soon since it's now becoming large criminal activities such as real identity thefts
RealCDN
It will be great when Facebook fizzles out. It will happen. Hopefully nothing as horrible rises in its wake.
I am Sam
If Facebook doesn’t do better job of implementing a process to better recognize & filter out foreign propaganda and continue to haphazardly commoditize our private information & personal photos without fully notifying the users
Facebook will become tomorrow’s America Online, AIM, Myspace, Windows Messenger, Netscape, webcrawler, Lycos, explorer, Napster etc...