I absolutely love that they shared the dataset. Hopefully deters future bad actors as the raw data itself will be shared with the greater public and hopefully for greater analysis.
Information operations directed at Hong Kong
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#12I don't think HN is immune to these kinds of CCP ops.
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#13I am curious to know how do companies like Facebook control this kind of activity on WhatsApp where there is end-end encryption. I see a lot of propaganda on Whats App being circulated everyday and people keep forwarding such messages into various groups.
Can you seriously trust WhatsApp's security now that it belongs to Facebook?
A lot more than I trust China.
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#14The elephant left standing in the room is not the spam and bot accounts, but the official, state-actor accounts such as Xinhua News that pay for promoted tweets carrying the same message.
Granted this is likely beyond the scope of Twitter’s safety team, but this completely sidesteps the issues raised here: https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/19/twitter-is-blocked-in-chin...
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Flag all the accounts that seem suspicious. The more signal, the easier for Threat Intelligence to identify them.
I did, but I feel like this could be solved with machine learning.
That is how supervised machine learning works. Give it know examples, and it extrapolates to identify other instances in new data.
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#16So this has become the norm now. Social media products who’s primary utility is to share information between people are now being used by governments to sow discord.
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#17I immediately thought to lookup Twitter's company about section. Under Values: > We believe in free expression and think every voice has the power to impact the world. Edit: I didn’t realize I appeared to be supporting the trolls. No, I meant it’s good to know Twitter would support the Hong Kong protestors.
authentic voice, not paid gov't troll armies.
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#18Maybe one day our cyberpunk corporate overlords will be able to fine governments for this kind of shit.
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#20The elephant left standing in the room is not the spam and bot accounts, but the official, state-actor accounts such as Xinhua News that pay for promoted tweets carrying the same message. Granted this is likely beyond the scope of Twitter’s safety team, but this completely sidesteps the issues raised here: https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/19/twitter-is-blocked-in-chin...
See https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/advertisi..., which was posted to the Twitter blog at approximately the same time as this post.