Facebook takes a good year before the U.S. presidential election further measures, the dissemination of Propaganda and fake news in the Online-curb network.
So, in the future, the state – controlled media – such as the Russian TV channel Russia Today-are to be marked clearly visible as such. In addition, the Online instructions-network in the case of contributions that have been declared by independent facts controllers for wrong, celebrity on how Facebook announced on Monday.
Facebook has become in the past years significantly better in the fight against Propaganda and fake news, stressed that founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a conference call. At the same time, the Online is exposed to the network, but increasingly sophisticated attacks from countries such as Russia, Iran and China.
campaigns from Russia and from Iran
On Monday gave Facebook is also known that a Russian-controlled network of fake Instagram accounts has been excavated. The person responsible would have been spent as a resident of the United States and before the US election, Americans with controversial political messages to be targeted, shared the social network on with. What exactly have been the target, could not be said for cyber security responsible Manager Nathaniel of the Same. There were “some Connections” to the Russian organization of the IRA. The USA accuse the government in Moscow to have about you in the election of 2016, intervened. Russia rejects the allegations.
the Same that the network was in a state of infancy. The investigation involved security researchers Ben Nimmo of Graphika told the news Agency Reuters, the widely-used Material have the same mass Democrats as well as Republicans appeal to. A large part of the members of the network had been busy “copying real Material of real Americans”. “This could indicate an attempt to cover up language deficiencies,” said Nimmo. This would have facilitated in the past the detection.
Facebook also announced the unmasking of three Iranian networks. (nag/sda/reuters)
Created: 21.10.2019, 23:34 PM
