NOURNEWS - "Meta Platforms" company, with the brand name "Meta", with 2.8 billion users, most of whom are members of the popular platforms such as Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, recently announced: "The US military is deceiving people with fake accounts on Instagram and Facebook. "
The company's security experts have identified several groups of fake accounts that appear to be active as legal accounts and also operate on a wide range of other social networks such as Twitter, YouTube and Telegram, but in fact do not belong to a specific real person.
The research conducted on these accounts shows that for many years these fake accounts have been responsible for the support dictated by the military regarding the policies of the West.
"Although the people behind these operations have tried to hide their identities, our investigation has uncovered their connection to the US military," Meta said in a recent report detailing the efforts of its security teams.
Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Yemen, Syria and Algeria are mentioned in the explanation of the areas covered by the fake accounts of the US Army as the target of these operations.
Their content is mainly published in Persian, Arabic and Russian languages using videos, slides and articles.
Previously, Western thinkers had talked about the way of managing public opinion and how false or even true news, images and analyzes can direct people's "thoughts and minds" in a calculated and selective manner.
The version of media theorist "Marshall McLuhan" focused on the awareness of the audience to defend the audience against this advertising onslaught and said; The audience should be aware that the media wants to induce him like this!
Today, however; The technique of creating fake accounts has gone beyond inducing lies and has turned to creating fake personalities who lead false streams and disinformation with the help of their approval or criticism by users.
To describe precisely; This technique creates requests and demands that do not exist externally, organizes risks and concerns that are pumped only in the virtual world and with unreal characters, and finally forms revolutions that its policies are designed by virtual ghosts.
The point is that; The presence of the military forces as the main stage managers of these fake cyber personalities can go beyond the unethical act of "lying", as a serious risk and as cyber-attacks that go through the stages of criminalization at the international level, can also be sued and prosecuted in the legal framework and the losses caused by this type of crisis can be traced, tracked and compensated for by others so that the virtual world can be controlled in a real way within the framework of realities.
BY: Pooya Mirzaei
NOURNEWS