The expert told about the “techniques” which do not hesitate to take advantage of the government.
Tom McCarthy, a reporter for the Guardian, tells how the “Russian trolls and automated bots not only promoted messages in support of trump, but used social media to spread social divisions in America, fueling discord and separation for a huge number of controversial topics such as immigration and Islamophobia.”
“Only through Facebook associated with Russia impostors spent hundreds of millions of interactions with potential voters who thought that dealing with fellow Americans, according to Jonathan Albright, of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, who has exposed this story to the public, by publishing a trove of searchable data at the beginning of this month, the article says. – These interactions could strengthen the political views of voters or promote their formation due to the fact that the self-styled accounts, was seized by a sharp point of view and expressed sympathy to the counterintuitive twists.”
“For example, during the election fake Facebook page Being Patriotic (“Be a patriot”) used politicized words such as “illegal”, “country” and “American”, and phrases such as “illegal aliens”, “Sharia law” and “state of welfare”, according to the data analysis Albright in a statement to the Associated Press. Page has scored at least 4.4 million interactions, the peak which was observed from mid-2016 to early 2017″, – stated in the article.
“Response of high-tech companies did not match the urgency of the threat, according to critics: they were reluctant to acknowledge the problem, the author points out. – Mention of Russia in the April draft of the report was for some inexplicable reason, is cut out, as reported in a report by The Wall Street Journal last week. Just last month Facebook acknowledged that he had sold thousands of ads for Russian pages”.
“As reported in The Washington Post this week, Google said such activity in the field of purchasing ads (the unknown scale) on Facebook, Gmail and its search engine, although the company did not published. Russian impostors noted in Instagram, Twitter, and even in the Pokémon Go, the article says. – Facebook has not responded to repeated requests for comment. However, the seriousness of the situation, the scope of which is still unknown, was highlighted Thursday in an interview with the Director of the administrative service Facebool Sheryl Sandberg gave Axios”.
“Our platform happened things that weren’t supposed to happen,’ said Sandberg, adding that the company not only brings to the American public apology, but has the resolve” to deal with the problem,” reports the author.
“As you can see, these aggressors have a comfortable, albeit not knowing what he was doing, ally in the face of trump, who generously distributes bile on the network, continues McCarthy. In some cases, the social media accounts associated with Russian operations, the planting of influence, apparently, was used as a direct and immediate hint Twitter account @realdonaldtrump, according to an analysis by the Washington-based Alliance for the defence of democracy”.
“The self-styled owners of pages can post ambiguous – or just sympathetic messages or announcements, and then asking for interactions such as “likes”, comments and just point of view, and watching them, collecting information about a genuine American Facebook users and potential voters. These voters can then be made targets of political content that matches their innermost sympathies,” reads the article.
Albright study showed that six related to Russia Facebook pages have generated more than 18 million interactions before Facebook them covered.
“It was only six accounts from dozens, dozens and dozens of pages of” with obvious markings available on other accounts associated with Russia, according to Albright. “These 18 million interactions in these six pages, only on Facebook, said Albright. – So what kind of numbers we are talking about in General? We’re talking about hundreds of millions of interactions”.
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