Facebook reveals Russian troll content, shuts down 135 IRA accounts
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Re: Facebook reveals Russian troll content, shuts down 135 IRA accounts
#2IRA = Internet Research Agency for those confused by the title, i.e. the russian "troll" company.
Re: Facebook reveals Russian troll content, shuts down 135 IRA accounts
#3> Facebook has removed 70 Facebook accounts, 138 Facebook Pages, and 65 Instagram accounts run by the Russian government-connected troll farm and election interference squad the Internet Research Agency
This looks like a fairly small amount of accounts.
Re: Facebook reveals Russian troll content, shuts down 135 IRA accounts
#4From the provided sample content it appears to be rather harmless. Reminds me of buzz feed style posts.
Re: Facebook reveals Russian troll content, shuts down 135 IRA accounts
#5> Facebook has removed 70 Facebook accounts, 138 Facebook Pages, and 65 Instagram accounts run by the Russian government-connected troll farm and election interference squad the Internet Research Agency This looks like a fairly small amount of accounts.
Yes, it is likely there are hundreds of thousands of accounts, not just a few dozen. Over time, we'll see. Twitter and all the rest have also come out with "it was just a few accounts, see, we've even gone and deleted them". But it's not that few.
Edit: Also, those few accounts pack a punch.
> 1.08 million users followed at least one of the Facebook Pages, and 493,000 users followed at least one of the Instagram accounts. The accounts had spent a combined $167,000 on ads since the start of 2015
That's a lot of influence and a fair bit of money spent on so few accounts. And across the whole Internet Research Agency as discussed by Facebook,
> 126 million people had seen the propaganda group’s Facebook posts and another 20 million had seen its Instagram posts.
Wow - that is a lot of people!
Re: Facebook reveals Russian troll content, shuts down 135 IRA accounts
#6From the provided sample content it appears to be rather harmless. Reminds me of buzz feed style posts.
None of that looks harmless to me. And also, buzzfeed-style posts are hardly harmless - I think you'd find a number of people who honestly believe that buzzfeed-style posts are a harbinger of the downfall of humanity. Regardless of any hyperbole, I do think "buzzfeed-style posts" are very harmful, and I while do think that these posts by Russian operatives can vaguely resemble buzzfeed-style posts, I think they are far more harmful.
Re: Facebook reveals Russian troll content, shuts down 135 IRA accounts
#7Hmm, I guess I come from an older generation where mention of the "IRA" was a whole different genre of terrorism...
Re: Facebook reveals Russian troll content, shuts down 135 IRA accounts
#8Hmm, I guess I come from an older generation where mention of the "IRA" was a whole different genre of terrorism...
Do you mean the individual retirement accounts? /s
Re: Facebook reveals Russian troll content, shuts down 135 IRA accounts
#9IRA = Internet Research Agency for those confused by the title, i.e. the russian "troll" company.
Thanks for this.
Reusing already-prominent acronyms gets really confusing although I know often it's unintentional.
Many Americans won't know who the IRA were/are, but in the UK (and probably the rest of Europe) it's common knowledge and burnt in.
Re: Facebook reveals Russian troll content, shuts down 135 IRA accounts
#10> Facebook has removed 70 Facebook accounts, 138 Facebook Pages, and 65 Instagram accounts run by the Russian government-connected troll farm and election interference squad the Internet Research Agency This looks like a fairly small amount of accounts.
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