{"id":16783,"date":"2024-12-03T13:37:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T12:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/03\/meta-says-it-has-taken-down-about-20-covert-influence-operations-in-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-12-03T13:37:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T12:37:23","slug":"meta-says-it-has-taken-down-about-20-covert-influence-operations-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/03\/meta-says-it-has-taken-down-about-20-covert-influence-operations-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta says it has taken down about 20 covert influence operations in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firm names Russia as top source of such activity but says it is \u2018striking\u2019 how little AI was used to try to trick voters<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Meta has intervened to take down about 20 covert influence operations around the world this year, it has emerged \u2013 though the tech firm said fears of AI-fuelled fakery warping elections have not materialised in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Clegg, the president of global affairs at the company that runs Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, said Russia was still the No 1 source of the adversarial online activity but said in a briefing it was \u201cstriking\u201d how little AI was used to try to trick voters in the busiest ever year for elections around the world.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/dec\/03\/meta-says-it-has-taken-down-about-20-covert-influence-operations-in-2024\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/08512db3c6c5392283771859f38473c090d637d5\/0_231_6908_4145\/master\/6908.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7993295316340200b8b755a327d98f2e\" title=\"Meta says it has taken down about 20 covert influence operations in 2024\" \/>Firm names Russia as top source of such activity but says it is \u2018striking\u2019 how little AI was used to try to trick voters<\/p>\n<p>Meta has intervened to take down about 20 covert influence operations around the world this year, it has emerged \u2013 though the tech firm said fears of AI-fuelled fakery warping elections have not materialised in 2024.<br \/>\nNick Clegg, the president of global affairs at the company that runs Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, said Russia was still the No 1 source of the adversarial online activity but said in a briefing it was \u201cstriking\u201d how little AI was used to try to trick voters in the busiest ever year for elections around the world. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firm names Russia as top source of such activity but says it is \u2018striking\u2019 how little AI was used to try to trick voters Meta has intervened to take down about 20 covert influence operations around the world this year, it has emerged \u2013 though the tech firm said fears of AI-fuelled fakery warping elections &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/03\/meta-says-it-has-taken-down-about-20-covert-influence-operations-in-2024\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meta says it has taken down about 20 covert influence operations in 2024<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16783"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}