>The Israeli network included 510 Facebook accounts, 11 pages, one group, and 32 Instagram accounts. Meta said that it took the network down early in its audience-building efforts, before it was able to generate activity among authentic communities. The network had fewer than 500 followers on Facebook, fewer than 100 group members, and about 2,000 Instagram followers<p>I don't use facebook, but is this really significant compared to the enormous number of bots that I assume exist? Certainly banning 500 bots on youtube or twitter would not be noticable.
There seems to be a lot of these bots on twitter. I hate starting to read a post only to realize it's a bot trying to push scams/ whatever I've just wasted my time on. At times like these I almost wish for some kind of digital ID to have a verification of interacting with a human. Don't know if that's possible in a robust and truly privacy preserving way
Can anyone speculate on why this post was flagged?<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40509030">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40509030</a>
Link to report here:<p><a href="https://transparency.meta.com/metasecurity/threat-reporting#2024" rel="nofollow">https://transparency.meta.com/metasecurity/threat-reporting#...</a>
>Meta has removed a network of hundreds of Facebook and Instagram accounts that operated from Israel and launched an influence campaign targeting users in the U.S. and Canada<p>I do not use Facebook, and I think this is a good thing. But what about Hamas ? I am sure Hamas also has their own bot network(s) targeting people in the US, or was that already done but there was no press about that ?