Meta's fact-checking partners, including USA Today, say they were blindsided by Meta's decision to drop them and reject claims of being “too politically biased”
www.wired.com/story/metas-... Kate Starbird / @katestarbird : This is extra-funny, since the fact-checkers often bent over backwards to not appear to be biased against conservatives. And also, becaus...
In its latest security report, Meta says it removed 2M+ accounts this year connected to pig butchering scams conducted from Southeast Asia and the UAE
Here's Why TechRadar : Meta reveals major crackdown on organized crime scams Cynthia B Brumfield / Metacurity : Meta Addresses Pig-Butchering, Claims Two-Year Collaboration with Law Enforcement Wired ...
Russia's interior ministry adds Meta's spokesperson Andy Stone to its wanted list, according to state-owned news agency TASS
Russia's interior ministry adds Meta's spokesperson Andy Stone to its wanted list, according to state-owned news agency TASS
The reason Andy Stone was added to the list was not indicated, according to the Russian news agency. — Russia's interior ministry has added the spokesperson …
In the coming weeks, Meta plans to announce its decision on reinstating Donald Trump, who was harassing 2020 election workers by name as recently as last week
Naomi Nix / Washington Post : Tweets: @mattnavarra , @melissabaker712 , @digiphile , @accountabletech , @washingtonpost , and @nataliemj10 Tweets: Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra : Trump's Facebook suspe...
In response to Meta's rebuttal of its XCheck report, The Wire shares a video of a source using a subdomain, DKIM signatures, and more, but experts are skeptical
& many mainstream foreign journalists also questioned The Wire's work. Now, @thewire_in says it's verified the email via- its DKIM signature. https://thewire.in/... Matthew Green / @matthew_d_green : ...
The Wire responds, including an alleged recording of an internal Instagram subdomain and DKIM verification, to Meta's statement questioning its XCheck probe
A point-by-point response to Meta's statement questioning The Wire's story on the ease with which the BJP IT Cell head is able to get Instagram to delete posts he reports. Tweets: @thewire_in , @rmnth...
Meta details influence operations from Russia, impersonating news outlets to spread anti-Ukraine content in Europe, and from China, targeting the US and Czechia
complete with real reporters' bylines and photos — and promoted them using fake accounts to smear Ukraine, according to a new report by Meta https://www.protocol.com/... Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : NE...
Disinformation campaigns use text messages ahead of the 2022 US midterms; in Kansas, voters got texts falsely saying a “yes” vote would protect abortion access
The biggest election disinformation event of the 2022 midterm primaries was not an elaborate Russian troll scheme that played out on Twitter or Facebook. Tweets: @kevincollier , @andymstone , @kevinco...
Meta disrupts covert influence operations by Belarus- and Russia-linked actors targeting Ukrainians, like hacking Ukrainian military staff's Facebook accounts
combining computer network exploitation with influence operations, CNE & active measures, in classic terminology (to be expected historically). Meta does an exceptionally good job at reflecting this d...