Report: The U.S. military may be suspected of operating dozens of fake social media accounts

　　China News Service, November 24th, a comprehensive report, the US media giant Meta stated in its latest report on the 22nd that some fake account networks composed of Facebook and Instagram accounts are likely to be operated by "persons related to the US military". The account focuses on disseminating false information to netizens in the target country and safeguarding the interests of the United States overseas.

　　According to the US Hacker News website, the report stated that the network location of these fake accounts is in the United States, focusing on Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Somalia, Syria, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Yemen and other countries.

The fake accounts involved multiple social media platforms, including Twitter, YouTube and Telegram in addition to Facebook and Instagram, as well as VKontakte and Odnoklassniki in Russia.

　　These fake accounts pretend to use Arabic, Persian and Russian to spread content to the local area, mainly promoting the strengthening of military cooperation with the United States and criticizing Iran, Russia and others.

In addition, some accounts also posted content related to the new crown epidemic, some of which were deleted for violating the information authenticity policy.

　　It is reported that the fake accounts may use machine learning techniques such as generative confrontation networks (GAN) to create profiles and photos, and post content during Eastern Time instead of working hours in the target country.

　　"We removed 39 Facebook accounts, 16 Pages, 2 groups and 26 Instagram accounts for violating our inauthentic behavior policy," Meta said in the report. The investigation found that the accounts were linked to US military personnel. Connected."

　　According to the US "Capitol Hill" report, Pentagon spokesman Cesar Santiago said on the 23rd that the US Department of Defense is aware of the Meta investigation report, but declined to comment.

"We investigate and evaluate all information in the report."

　　According to a previous "Washington Post" report, in August this year, social media Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Twitter launched an operation to purge influence on their platforms.

Major social media sites have shut down hundreds of fake celebrity and media sites created in the U.S. in recent years, which research suggests are likely run by the U.S. military.