Aug 26, 2022
Twitter and Meta take down pro-US propaganda campaign
The researchers were clear that even though the companies named these countries, it did not prove they were behind the campaign. They found the campaign mirrored some of the tactics commonly used in propaganda campaigns against the West.These include creating fake personas using artificially generated images and running campaigns across multiple platforms. Similar to previously exposed online propaganda campaigns targeting the West, some of the fake accounts in the pro-US campaign posed as independent media outlets. In one campaign targeting Central Asia, accounts focused on praising US aid to the region and criticising Russia for engaging in "Imperialist wars" in Africa and Syria, and for the deaths of civilians in Ukraine. Y Carvin, managing editor at US think tank the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, said it would be "Ineffective and counterproductive" for democracies to undertake such campaigns.
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