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Social Media Platforms Easy to Manipulate, NATO Advisers discover

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December 9, 2019
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social media manipulationWith elections approaching in the UK and US, social media companies are still unsuccessful to deal with manipulation on their platforms, NATO-backed researchers have determined.

The NATO Strategic Communication Centre of Excellence – a sovereign organization that guides NATO – purchased social media engagement for 105 varied posts across Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube over a three-month period.

Altogether, it spent around $333 with five European and 11 Russian companies that sell bogus social media engagement, getting 3,500 comments, 20,000 views, 25,000, and 5,000 followers.

The team then recognized the 18,739 accounts that were being used to provide the fake engagement and conveyed them to the four platforms related – merely to find that, after three weeks, 95 per cent of the accounts were even now active.

“This means that malicious activity led by other actors using the same services and the same accounts also went unobserved,” the authors state.

Most of these accounts’ activity was positioned around commercial companies, though the accounts were found to involve with 721 political pages, containing 52 official government profiles and the accounts of two chiefs of state.

Twitter, it came out, was best at eliminating the fake engagement, with about half the likes and retweets ultimately being removed. Facebook, by contrast, eliminated very little fake content, even though it was the most active of the platforms at blocking the accounts.

YouTube was the poorest platform at removing false accounts, and Instagram was the cheapest and easiest platform to manipulate, failing to remove any of the accounts that the researchers stated.

It’s apparently this failure to take action in opposition to the ‘manipulation service providers’ that makes them so self-confident: “Rather than a ghostly underworld, it is an easily available marketplace that most web users can reach with slight effort via any search engine,” the researchers write.

“In fact, manipulation service providers advertise publicly on major platforms.”

The authors emphasized that this was a pretty simple experiment to conduct and that there’s no motive the social media companies couldn’t have been using similar strategies to get rid of the fraudulent accounts themselves.

“Self-regulation is not working. The manipulation industry is budding year by year,” they conclude. “We see no sign that it is becoming considerably more expensive or more difficult to carry out widespread social media manipulation.”

“Though no anti-spam system will ever be faultless, our teams work very hard to control spam views to less than one percent of the complete views. We have additional safeguards in place to lessen the influence of these views on all of our systems,” says a YouTube spokesperson.

“We also intermittently audit and authenticate the views videos receive and, when suitable, remove fake views and take other actions against overstepping channels.”

 

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