Meta caught an Israeli marketing firm running hundreds of fake Facebook accounts

https://www.engadget.com/meta-caught-an-israeli-marketing-firm-running-hundreds-of-fake-facebook-accounts-150021954.html

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kitnaht@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 2y (4 replies)

I mean, they've been all over Reddit running accounts for decades at this point, no? At this point I feel like 75% of my interactions on mainstream sites are going to be from foreign agents and/or bots.

WanderingVentra@lemm.ee · 28 pts · 2y (2 replies)

They've got to be at least 75% of /r/worldnews.

filister@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y (1 reply)

They simply ban you there for a mere criticism of Israel, which has nothing to do with their T&C. By now this subreddit turned into an echo chamber of likely minded bots and trolls.

FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

They will site ban you for reporting the shill accounts too, even when they're flagrantly violating the TOS.

afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

You can trust me. I am human.

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K1nsey6@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y (5 replies)

And they keep telling us Russia and China are the threat we need to be afraid of

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io · 27 pts · 2y (1 reply)

The real enemy was marketing this whole to time.

metaStatic@kbin.social · 6 pts · 2y

"He's going after that anti-marketing dollar, that's a lucrative market."

BlueBockser@programming.dev · 7 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Wait till you find out what Russia and China are doing on Facebook

K1nsey6@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

What they might be doing is still not as much a threat to society as what the US and its allies do.

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 2y

Why not both?

cerement@slrpnk.net · 19 pts · 2y (1 reply)

forget to pay your bill and Zuck will throw you to the wolves

MajorHavoc@programming.dev · 11 pts · 2y

Yeah. I'm not buying for a minute that anything was "discovered", other than that they didn't pay their protection bill. Meta/Facebook seems to have tolerated worse and more obvious abuses for decades.

afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I just assumed that almost all activity on faceboot are bots.

BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Bots and grandparents getting fleeced by bots.

afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

But how can we say no to helping the Prince of Nigeria!?

NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y

Any post about Israel on Threads still has a comment section filled with non-posting accounts that only comment water-muddying dreck about Hamas.

It's rampant. Hasbara is busy.