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Facebook takedown of 50 Internet Research Agency-linked Instagram accounts from Monday deserves some more attention. A few thoughts. The FB post: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/10/removing-more-coordinated-inauthentic-behavior-from-iran-and-russia/ … Graphika’s report (Ben Nimmo had advance access to some of the data): https://web.archive.org/web/20191023033507/https://graphika.com/uploads/Graphika%20Report%20-%20CopyPasta.pdf …
First off, Facebook isn't revealing how they attributed to IRA (“showed some links”). It is safe to assume an investigative justification for this vagueness. FB's threat intel team had enough confidence in their attribution to brief Zuckerberg for a callhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/21/facebook-fine-tunes-disinformation-defenses-but-leaves-controversial-political-ad-rules-intact/…
The key point here is that Facebook took down a (likely) IRA campaign that was still in an early stage: a small number of assets, with a still small audience, experimenting with some new tactics, and apparently operating with significantly improved OPSEC.
(Well it appears IRA tradecraft still wasn’t impressive, but perhaps a little better than in 2016)pic.twitter.com/uXn0b6Ie6h
The operating environment for the IRA (and others) in the run-up to 2020 is a lot harder in some respects—social media companies and the vast majority of researchers and journalists were far too slow to understand what was going on in 2016. Not so 2020. Exhibit 1: this takedown.
It's aight, zuck's truth council got this under control.pic.twitter.com/YlursEgQn1
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