Disinformation or Debate? Finding Signal Amid Political Noise
summary
Facebook’s Community Threat Intelligence team outlines concrete methods: focus on coordinated inauthentic behavior (coordination + misleading identity), use behavioral TTPs rather than content, and run classifiers that take down millions of clearly fake accounts daily while human-run personas evade detection. Case studies show Iranian campaigns push geo‑political narratives, Russian campaigns amplify both sides, reuse memes and fake media pages, and spread via ads, pages, Instagram and WhatsApp. Rapid takedowns, cross‑platform sharing, and transparency produce leads, but attribution is hard and IP ownership is often absent.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:32Community Threat Intelligence
- 1:09Why do Info Ops occur on social media?
- 3:05Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Policy
- 6:25Fake vs. Inauthentic
- 8:31Discerning Threats to Elections
- 14:41Differences Across Info Ops Campaigns
- 17:19Similarities Across Info Ops Campaigns
- 19:29What Information Operations Look Like
- 21:27Info Ops vs. InfoSec
- 25:09Building Deterrence
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