Thousands of fake Facebook accounts shut down by Meta were primed to polarize voters ahead of 2024
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Meta says it has found and disabled thousands of fake Facebook accounts linked to China that were used to spread politically partisan content in the United States before next year’s election.
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Meta says it has found and disabled thousands of fake Facebook accounts linked to China that were used to spread politically partisan content in the United States before next year’s election.
Someone in China created thousands of fake social media accounts designed to appear to be from Americans and used them to spread polarizing political content in an apparent effort to divide the U.S.…
Meta announced Thursday that it removed thousands of Chinese Facebook accounts posing as American citizens to promulgate polarizing political content online and targeting both sides of the political spectrum.
Meta said on Thursday that it found a network of nearly 4,800 fake Facebook accounts originating from China, potentially designed to polarize U.S. voters.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Someone in China created thousands of fake social media accounts designed to appear to be from Americans and used them to spread polarizing political content in an apparent effort to divide the U.S. ahead of next year’s elections, Meta said Thursday.
Facebook's parent company Meta took down thousands of fake China-based accounts that were designed to influence American voters ahead of the 2024 elections.
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