By the time the program begins, the promotional effort will be four months old, having required the full-time attention of six Campfire employees who are monitoring message boards, maintaining a fake blog and coordinating the precisely timed release of new materials.
TechCrunch confirmed that the Resisters page was created by "bad actors," as defined by the company, who coordinated fake accounts to deceive users.
Though much attention has rightly been given to the spread of fake news and coordinated disinformation on Facebook, the perhaps more challenging problem and one that is baked into the platform's design is how to moderate the speech of users who aren't fundamentally trying to game the platform or undermine democracy, but are simply using it on a daily basis in ways that can potentially hurt others.
This isn't the first event coordinated by fake Facebook accounts with the likely intention of further polarizing U.S. voters.
Officials say this is the first time a crackdown on fake immigration lawyers has been coordinated broadly among federal and state agencies and local immigrant aid organizations.
"In these cases, the people behind this activity coordinated with one another and used fake accounts to misrepresent themselves, and that was the basis for our action".
In these cases, the people behind this activity coordinated with one another and used fake accounts to misrepresent themselves, and that was the basis for our action," Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook's head of cybersecurity policy, said in a blog post.
During Putin's first decade, Surkov was known for coordinating the "matrix" of Russian politics, cultivating fake opposition parties and funding pro-Kremlin youth groups.
"I suspect that many people created fake accounts, but with an app that reported their real GPS coordinates," Graham adds.
The newest wave of fake isn't in the news arena but is no less coordinated.
