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In case anyone from the FB team behind this is reading: Was stealth banning the relevant accounts considered? If so, curious to know why it was rejected.
by ddebernardy 8y ago
In case anyone from the FB team behind this is reading: Was stealth banning the relevant accounts considered? If so, curious to know why it was rejected.
- atemerev 8y agoIn such coordinated operations, the impact is usually verified via independent accounts which are not participating in spreading, which are nearly impossible to distinguish from actual victims. So stealthban is not particularly effective. As a part-time consultant on countermeasures for opinion manipulation in social networks, I can say that passive defenses are usually not reliable enough.