US veterans, current service members and their families are being targeted online with malware and by foreign entities and influence campaigns, and the government isn't doing enough to stop it, a new report says
The study by Vietnam Veterans of America, a non-profit that advocates for and serves the needs of all veterans, documents a myriad number of ways veterans are impersonated and targeted online -- particularly on Facebook. In at least one instance, they've been targeted by influence campaigns from foreign governments.
"And they've done this, in part, by zeroing in on service members and veterans."Facebook periodically announces it has proactively taken down what it describes as"coordinated inauthentic behavior" -- some of those fall into the category of influence campaigns, which usually benefit a particular country's government. But Facebook isn't aware of all its users' intentions, and tips from some past takedowns have originated with other tech companies or the FBI.
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