The AI-generated profiles are actually just one of two anti-Ukraine disinformation campaigns that Meta has been tackling. Twitter said it had also banned more than a dozen accounts sharing links to Ukraine Today.
'This operation ran a handful of websites masquerading as independent news outlets, publishing claims about the West betraying Ukraine and Ukraine being a failed state.'
'They claimed to be based in Kyiv and posed as news editors, a former aviation engineer, and an author of a scientific publication on hydrography – the science of mapping water. The company said: 'We took down this operation, blocked their domains from being shared on our platform, and shared information with other tech platforms, researchers and governments. Meta, which owns Facebook, said it uncovered a relatively small network of about 40 accounts, Pages and Groups on Facebook and Instagram targeting Ukraine that had these fake profiles. These fake people had a presence across several platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Telegram, Odnoklassniki and VK. Sensity, a service that detects fraudulent documents, also identified the AI images as deepfakes. 'In the past several days, we’ve seen increased targeting of people in Ukraine, including Ukrainian military and public figures by Ghostwriter, a threat actor that has been tracked for some time by the security community.'Ĭollins pointed out some flaws with the AI-generated photos of the fake Ukrainians, believed to have been taken from , an online tool that generates random fake faces.įor example, the photo of Vladimir Bondarenko 'has weird ears', while Irina Kerimova is shown with mismatched earrings. 'Our investigation is ongoing, and so far we’ve found links between this network and another operation we removed in April 2020, which we then connected to individuals in Russia, the Donbass region in Ukraine and two media organizations in Crimea - NewsFront and SouthFront, now sanctioned by the US government. 'This operation ran a handful of websites masquerading as independent news outlets, publishing claims about the West betraying Ukraine and Ukraine being a failed state. 'They claimed to be based in Kyiv and posed as news editors, a former aviation engineer, and an author of a scientific publication on hydrography - the science of mapping water. 'These fictitious personas used profile pictures likely generated using artificial intelligence techniques like generative adversarial networks (GAN). 'This network used fake accounts and operated fictitious personas and brands across the internet - including on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Telegram, Odnoklassniki and VK - to appear more authentic in an apparent attempt to withstand scrutiny by platforms and researchers.
'When we disrupted this network on our platform, it had fewer than 4,000 Facebook accounts following one of more of its Pages and fewer than 500 accounts following one or more of its Instagram accounts.
'We took down this operation, blocked their domains from being shared on our platform, and shared information with other tech platforms, researchers and governments. 'They were operated from Russia and Ukraine and targeted people in Ukraine across multiple social media platforms and through their own websites. 'In the last 48 hours, we uncovered a relatively small network of about 40 accounts, Pages and Groups on Facebook and Instagram.
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