Meta says it has taken down about 20 covert influence operations in 2024

This whole article is full of double speak.

TL;DR:

Just as we all guessed, Russia is paying for disinformation campaigns on Meta.
Unexpectedly, Meta is doing even the bare minimum to stop them, rather than just happily taking the money.
Completely expectedly China and Iran are doing the same.
Somewhat unexpectedly, deep fake AI imagery isn't being used much. (My commentary - because the result still sucks, at least when using cheap labor.)
Completely expectedly, Russia has a huge farm of fake websites with AI generated text to push their agenda.

After parsing all that, yes, this is still a big deal. Meta's person in charge of conbating it, minimizing it, isn't a good look.

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