{"id":225396,"date":"2024-05-29T18:46:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T18:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/29\/meta-caught-an-israeli-marketing-firm-running-hundreds-of-fake-facebook-accounts\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:18:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:18:30","slug":"meta-caught-an-israeli-marketing-firm-running-hundreds-of-fake-facebook-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/29\/meta-caught-an-israeli-marketing-firm-running-hundreds-of-fake-facebook-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta caught an Israeli marketing firm running hundreds of fake Facebook accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Meta caught an Israeli marketing firm using fake Facebook accounts to run an influence campaign on its platform, the company said in its <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t39.8562-6\/445235204_402858536059630_7403303878106178024_n.pdf?_nc_cat=100&amp;ccb=1-7&amp;_nc_sid=b8d81d&amp;_nc_ohc=rLBTJHhbAdkQ7kNvgFy7Nkn&amp;_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&amp;oh=00_AYD2ZgSH07SF8T076nTplbPh-I6_p2bUuU6HMVJdy9vk3A&amp;oe=665D1CFF\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:latest report;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">latest report<\/a> on coordinated inauthentic behavior. The scheme targeted people in the US and Canada and posted about the Israel-Hamas war.<\/p>\n<p>In all, Meta\u2019s researchers uncovered 510 Facebook accounts, 11 pages, 32 Instagram accounts and one group that were tied to the effort, including fake and previously hacked accounts. The accounts posed as \u201cJewish students, African Americans and \u2018concerned\u2019 citizens\u201d and shared posts that praised Israel\u2019s military actions and criticized the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and college protests. They also shared Islamaophobic comments in Canada, saying that \u201cradical Islam poses a threat to liberal values in Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meta\u2019s researchers said the campaign was linked to STOIC, a \u201ca political marketing and business intelligence firm\u201d based in Israel, though they didn\u2019t speculate on the motives behind it. STOIC was also active on X and YouTube and ran websites \u201cfocused on the Israel-Hamas war and Middle Eastern politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Meta, the campaign was discovered before it could build up a large audience and many of the fake accounts were disabled by the company\u2019s automated systems. The accounts reached about 500 followers on Facebook and about 2,000 on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>The report also notes that the people behind the accounts seemed to use generative AI tools to write many of their comments on the pages of politicians, media organizations and other public figures.\u201cThese comments generally linked to the operations\u2019 websites, but they were often met with critical responses from authentic users calling them propaganda,\u201d Meta\u2019s policy director for threat disruption, David Agranovich, said during a briefing with reporters \u201cSo far, we have not seen novel Gen AI driven tactics that would impede our ability to disrupt the adversarial networks behind them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/meta-caught-an-israeli-marketing-firm-running-hundreds-of-fake-facebook-accounts-150021954.html?src=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Meta caught an Israeli marketing firm using fake Facebook accounts to run an influence campaign on its platform, the company said in its latest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}