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US military involved in propaganda campaign, according to Meta
Link: https://detv.us/2022/11/25/us-military-involved-in-propaganda-campaign-according-to-meta-rt-en/
Social media giant Meta Platforms, Inc. has said it has uncovered a network of fake US military accounts used for covert influence operations in countries in the Middle East – but also in Russia. | According to its own statements, the Facebook parent company Meta Platforms, Inc. has deleted hundreds of fake accounts that had been used by the US military for covert influence operations in the Middle East, Russia and other countries. According to a published Tuesday by Meta Platforms Adversarial Threat Report the blocked accounts are said to have been part of a covert US campaign called the “Trans-Regional Web Initiative”. Content was then disseminated through this information network aimed at promoting narratives that worked in the interests of the United States and its allies. ● According to the group, the accounts used for influencing were not only discovered on Meta’s own platforms, but also on networks such as Twitter, YouTube and Telegram. “This network originated in the United States and was centered on a number of countries including Afghanistan, Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Somalia, Syria, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Yemen,” the report said. ● A formal investigation into these accounts, Meta Platforms said, revealed that those involved in the US military’s propaganda campaign mostly posed as locals from those countries. In order to make the account as real as possible, the US military should even use so-called GAN tools (Generative Adversarial Network), i.e. programs for creating artificial but real-looking images in order to be able to avoid a possible discovery through a reverse image search. It is also noteworthy that the cyber soldiers used their own logos and visual style, and the fake accounts were also linked to other suitable fake accounts on YouTube, Twitter or other networks.
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