{"id":144958,"date":"2022-08-27T12:24:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T17:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/a-us-propaganda-operation-hit-russia-and-china-with-memes"},"modified":"2022-08-27T12:24:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T17:24:48","slug":"a-us-propaganda-operation-hit-russia-and-china-with-memes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/a-us-propaganda-operation-hit-russia-and-china-with-memes","title":{"rendered":"A US Propaganda Operation Hit Russia and China With Memes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-us-propaganda-operation-hit-russia-and-china-with-memes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s rare that Western disinformation efforts are discovered and exposed. This week, the Stanford Internet Observatory and social media analysis firm Graphika detailed a five-year operation that was pushing pro-Western narratives. The research follows Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram as they remove a series of accounts from their platforms for \u201ccoordinated inauthentic behavior.\u201d The propaganda accounts used memes, fake news websites, online petitions, and various hashtags in an attempt to push pro-Western views and were linked to both overt and covert influence operations. The accounts, some of which appear to use AI-generated profile pictures, targeted internet users in Russia, China, and Iran, among other countries. The researchers say the accounts \u201cheavily criticized\u201d Russia following its nvasion of Ukraine in February and also \u201cpromoted anti-extremism messaging.\u201d Twitter said the activity it saw is likely to have originated in the US and the UK, while Meta said it was the US.<\/p>\n<p>#WesternPropaganda<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Plus: An Iranian hacking tool steals inboxes, LastPass gets hacked, and a deepfake scammer targets the crypto world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s rare that Western disinformation efforts are discovered and exposed. This week, the Stanford Internet Observatory and social media analysis firm Graphika detailed a five-year operation that was pushing pro-Western narratives. The research follows Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram as they remove a series of accounts from their platforms for \u201ccoordinated inauthentic behavior.\u201d The propaganda accounts [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":496,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144958","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\/496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}