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Spammy Russia-based accounts explode on Meta platforms but aren’t gaining as much traction.
Meta has found a growing number of accounts and pages linked to coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB) from Russia, but they’re not gaining as many followers as before, the company said in a new report.
Since 2022, Meta wrote, “we’ve seen fewer attempts to build complex deceptive personas in favor of thinly-disguised, short-lived fake accounts in an effort to spam the internet, hoping something will ‘stick.’”
But Meta has noted “a consistent decline” in following of these kinds of accounts.
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