{"id":114173,"date":"2020-10-11T07:41:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T14:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/chinese-propaganda-network-on-facebook-used-ai-generated-faces"},"modified":"2020-10-11T07:48:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T14:48:19","slug":"chinese-propaganda-network-on-facebook-used-ai-generated-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/chinese-propaganda-network-on-facebook-used-ai-generated-faces","title":{"rendered":"Chinese propaganda network on Facebook used AI-generated faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-propaganda-network-on-facebook-used-ai-generated-faces.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite how much I like GAN, the technology starts to give us some real troubles\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/facebook\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\">Facebook<\/a> removed two networks of fake accounts spreading government propaganda on the platform Tuesday, one originating in China and one in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>In its <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2020\/09\/removing-coordinated-inauthentic-behavior-china-philippines\/\">latest report<\/a> on this kind of coordinated campaign, the company says it took down 155 Facebook accounts, 11 pages, nine groups and seven Instagram accounts connected to the Chinese activity and 57 accounts, 31 Pages and 20 Instagram accounts for the activity in the Philippines. Both operations broke Facebook\u2019s rules against \u201ccoordinated inauthentic behavior on behalf of a foreign or government entity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company released the report Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/public-assets.graphika.com\/reports\/graphika_report_naval_gazing.pdf\">in coordination with Graphika<\/a>, a social analytics company that specializes in disinformation. <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/graphika-inc\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\">Graphika<\/a> regularly analyzes this kind of activity in coordination with Facebook and its reports dive into more depth about techniques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite how much I like GAN, the technology starts to give us some real troubles\u2026 Facebook removed two networks of fake accounts spreading government propaganda on the platform Tuesday, one originating in China and one in the Philippines. In its latest report on this kind of coordinated campaign, the company says it took down 155 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114178,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114173\/revisions\/114178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}