Posted on 07/12/2024 7:11:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has discovered that a Russian bot farm, with over 900 AI-generated fake social media accounts, has been spreading propaganda and disinformation around the US and other countries.
Most of the AI-generated fake profiles look like they belong to American citizens, with biographical information, political ideologies, locations, personas, backstories, photos, friends, and families, and have been posting videos, content, and images to support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and other pro-Kremlin initiatives. One of these fake profiles professed to be a Bitcoin enthusiast and a free speech absolutist, from Minneapolis, who was opposed to the New World Order.
The DOJ has confirmed that an ‘unnamed’ RT (Russia’s state-owned media outlet) editor was responsible for the bot farm after RT leadership approved plans to “distribute information on a wide-scale basis.”
The ‘unnamed’ RT editor bought two domain names that they then used to create two email servers which were then used to create 968 email addresses, which were then used to create fake social media accounts. AI-enabled bot farm generation and management software–Meliorator–was used to generate the images, videos, and personas for each of the 968 profiles. Most of these profiles were generated on X (formerly Twitter) as security restrictions can be more easily bypassed, using specific software.
Although X has since suspended the fake accounts for terms of service violations, it’s not known how many people followed them or integrated with their content, so investigations will continue.
Yes
The federal government probably has tens of thousands of such accounts.
How many bot farms are they going after that spread leftist and woke propaganda? That’s right, they won’t go after their partners. This article is a joke.
A dozen or so that are painfully obvious, just looking at their post profiles, but we're not supposed to doxx people, so......
Still butthurt that you can’t cyberstalk people?
That’s too bad.
And look at that, right on time for the false claims that people are bots because they disagree.
Just like Hillary and her “Russian bots” claim that everyone who disagreed with her were russian bots.
Funny, that.
Yes, and we have Russian troll spreading disinformation right here on FR.
You tried on the shoe and it fit?
Naaah Cinderella, it was yours.
Zuckerberg is "fact checking" viral claims about Project 2025 stating that it is mostly false.
I guess it's because Zuckerberg wants to get rid of Biden.
They almost got to me on social media! For a second there, I didn't want to give $100 billion to Ukraine!
But I'm OK now!
JimRob even makes fun of you zeepers and your outlandish accusations:
“Yes, I know that too. Just having a hard time recognizing which ones are the paid forces against us. I’ve seen some of my best friends who have been here 20, 25 years being accused of being paid Russian trolls. Guess I’m going to have to have another look at their check stubs.” -Jim Robinson
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4243242/posts?page=29#29
Yeah, Chad will conveniently ignore that as it doesn’t fit his narrative.
Prolly a fake bot-farm created by Federales and busted by the same. IOW this was clown farm created to get FBI etc some publicity.
Every nation and sbithole has bot farms these days. The only exceptions are a few uktra-shitholes in Africa and Tajikistan
Money
Ideology
Coercion
Ego
Seriously, day after day, week after week, month after month the same accounts post material emanating from Sputnik, RT, even TASS, for Heaven's sake. Stuff that was debunked years ago in some cases. Why? That's not just expressing opinion.
Nice attempt at a sidestep.
Sadly for you the link to what was said was provided.
Yes, and I'm not accusing JR of anything.
“A dozen or so that are painfully obvious, just looking at their post profiles, but we’re not supposed to doxx people, so......”
Have you shared your information with the moderators or the Robinsons? I’m certain you won’t. So step off with your Ukraine nationalist propaganda.
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