Meta disclosed the disruption of three covert influence operations from Iran, China, and Romania in its recent quarterly Adversarial Threat Report. These operations involved fake accounts across various platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, aimed at influencing political sentiments in Romania and targeting Azeri-speaking audiences in Azerbaijan and Turkey. The report emphasized Meta's proactive measures in neutralizing these campaigns before they could cultivate genuine user engagement, highlighting the sophistication and operational security of the threat actors involved, who utilized tactics such as proxy IP infrastructure to obscure their identities.
We detected and removed these campaigns before they were able to build authentic audiences on our apps.
This campaign showed consistent operational security (OpSec) to conceal its origin and coordination, including by relying on proxy IP infrastructure.
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