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☆ Meta cut election teams months before Threads launch, raising concerns for 2024
  + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Donie O'Sullivan Sean Lyngaas | Donie O'Sullivan | Sean Lyngaas | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +7 min
A Meta spokesperson did not specify, when asked, how many staffers had been cut from its teams working on elections. Instead, Meta said the social media giant had invested $16 billion in technology and teams since 2016 to protect its users. For years, the social media giant has invested heavily in teams of personnel to root out sophisticated and coordinated networks of fake accounts. In addition to its in-house team, Meta and other social media companies rely on tips from academics and other researchers who specialize in monitoring covert disinformation networks. The launch of Threads even as Meta trims its disinformation-focused personnel comes at a turbulent and transformative time for those tasked with writing and implementing rules on social media platforms.
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☆ Meta shuts down network of fake accounts that ‘signal a shift’ in China-based influence efforts
  + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Donie O'Sullivan Sean Lyngaas | Donie O'Sullivan | Sean Lyngaas | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
New York CNN —Facebook’s parent company Meta announced Wednesday that it has taken down a network of more than 100 China-based accounts that posed as organizations in the US and Europe and pushed pro-Beijing talking points. The network, which had more than 15,000 followers on Meta’s platforms, appears to have had some financial resources behind it. The fake accounts also posted “negative commentary about Uyghur activists and critics of the Chinese state,” it said. “We’re keeping a close eye” on the Chinese influence operations heading into the 2024 election, the official said. Ahead of the 2022 US midterm election, FBI officials expressed concern that Chinese operatives appeared to be engaging in “Russian-style influence activities” that stoke American divisions.
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