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Thousands of fake Facebook accounts shut down by Meta were primed to polarize voters ahead of 2024

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To appear more like normal Facebook accounts, the network would sometimes post about fashion or pets. Earlier this year, some of the accounts abruptly replaced their American-sounding user names and profile pictures with new ones suggesting they lived in India. The accounts then began spreading pro-Chinese content about Tibet and India, reflecting how fake networks can be redirected to focus on new targets.

Many of the fake accounts identified by Meta this week also had nearly identical accounts on X, where some of them regularly retweeted Musk's posts.

Those accounts remain active on X.

Lol, dumb and dumber

And that's what happens when ya don't have any/enough workers left

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BlacklabelToday 01:59 pm JST

when national elections will occur in the U.S., India, Mexico, Ukraine, 

not in Ukraine they won’t.

elections were unilaterally cancelled.

It's called martial law. I shouldn't have to educate you on this, but I will as many times as it takes. There is some discussion about holding them, but the thinking is the average Ukrainian doesn't want them while Russia is still advancing its terrorism:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67440357

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when national elections will occur in the U.S., India, Mexico, Ukraine, 

not in Ukraine they won’t.

elections were unilaterally cancelled.

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There's no way it could be China. Facebook and Instagram are illegal there, so if anyone was doing it and it wasn't cut off within 5 minutes, that means the Chinese govt approved it. I just can't believe it. No way would our friends in China try to undermine "internal issues" that has nothing at all to do with Asia or China

right?

right.

Right!

Also, we can see that X is doing less, since they aren't about to ban/delete fake accounts created in violation of the platform's account and use policies. Things that Musk doesn't like are banned. Things that get Musk paid are allowed. Simple. I don't have an issue either way, just want the platform to be honest.

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Keep FA'ing China...

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