Officials from Twitter and Facebook said Thursday that while they have not seen any \u201ccoordinated\u201d efforts by malicious foreign groups to spread disinformation around the 2020 elections, tactics are changing and evolving.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have seen a change in tactics, and this in part is because of the success that we\u2019ve had in clamping down on the inauthentic platform manipulations,\u201d Nick Pickles, the director of global public policy strategy and development at Twitter, testified during a House Intelligence Committee virtual hearing.<\/p>\n
One\u00a0example given by Pickles of the new behavior is online Chinese actors unfavorably comparing the heavy U.S. police response to recent protests over the death of George Floyd to crackdowns on protesters in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat shift, from platform manipulation to overt state assets, is something that we have observed, and it reminds us we have to be vigilant that the challenges we faced in 2016 aren\u2019t constant, and that this remains an evolving security challenge,\u201d Pickles testified.<\/p>\n
Nathaniel Gleicher, the head of security policy at Facebook, testified that his team was seeing \u201cinauthentic behavior\u201d around the COVID-19 pandemic and in connection to recent protests over the death of George Floyd.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe definitely see the tactics in this space evolving, and we see the threat actors trying new efforts to get around the controls that are put in place,\u201d Gleicher said.<\/p>\n
He emphasized that while Facebook has not seen any \u201ccoordinated inauthentic behavior\u201d from foreign nations targeting voting or voting systems, it was \u201cdefinitely something we are monitoring.\u201d<\/p>\n
Facebook has seen other coordinated foreign activity that it has removed this year. Gleicher testified that Facebook had removed 18 inauthentic networks this year including three based in Russia, two from Iran, and two based in the United States. He also said Facebook removed around 1.7 billion fake accounts from its platform between January and March.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are up against determined adversaries, and we will never be perfect, but we will continue our vital work to stop bad actors and give people a voice,\u201d Gleicher testified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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