Facebook and Twitter on Friday disabled a global network of hundreds of fake accounts that pushed pro-Trump messages and covered its tracks using inauthentic photos generated with the aid of artificial intelligence
Twitter, for its part, confirmed it had suspended 700 accounts linked to that same network for violating "rules around platform manipulation - specifically fake accounts and spam." Google did not respond to a request for comment.
To that end, Facebook and Twitter announced a slew of additional enforcement actions on Friday targeting coordinated, inauthentic behaviour originating out of countries such as Georgia and Saudi Arabia."We are making progress rooting out this abuse," Facebook's Gleicher said. "But as we've said before, it's an ongoing challenge."
But English-language pages associated with the organisation "focused heavily on positive coverage" of Trump, while attacking his critics, as well as the researchers at Graphika and DFR Lab. Fake accounts ran many of the pages and initiated many of the engagements with the posts, photos and other content.
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