On Friday, Russia’s Federal Information Technologies and Mass Media Supervision Agency (Roskomnadzor) imposed a partial access block on the social media platform, stating that Facebook was deemed to violate basic human rights and freedoms. .
Facebook and Instagram’s umbrella company Meta had recently imposed sanctions on Russian state media. Meta’s Head of Security Policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, announced that state-funded broadcasters are prohibited from advertising or monetizing social media platforms.
Facebook closed fake Russian accounts
Meta announced the steps it took to combat disinformation spread on Facebook and Instagram applications during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
announced that within 48 hours it had crashed a massive network of fake accounts consisting of about 40 accounts, pages and groups on Facebook and Instagram. Stating that the vast majority of these accounts are Russian-supported, the company shared the information that war victims in Ukraine were targeted through social media platforms.
Meta stated that one of the closed pages has less than 4,000 followers on Facebook and less than 500 followers on Instagram. According to Nathaniel Gleicher, Head of Security Policy, these accounts, posing as independent broadcasters, were used to propagate the claim that Western states had betrayed Ukraine and that Ukraine was a failed state.
In addition, Meta stated that they detected an attack method called Ghostwriter, and stated that it targeted Ukrainian officials and journalists. According to the shared information, in the Ghostwriter method, the attacker seizes the account of the target person and then spreads false information about the Russia-Ukraine war.
Explained how to protect from attack
Meta warned to be careful when accepting friend requests and opening links and files from people you don’t know. Additionally, he stated that to prevent hackers from accessing your personal information, the same password should not be used across multiple services.
Lock profile feature available
Shortly after Russia launched military operation against Ukraine, Meta launched the “Lock Profile” feature for Facebook users in Ukraine. This feature allows people to lock their Facebook profile with one click.
When you lock your profile, people who are not your friends cannot download, enlarge or share your profile photo. They also can’t see your posts. In other words, we can say that your profile is closed to people you do not know.
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