It was about bringing vaccinations against Corona into disrepute. Now Facebook has responded and deleted suspicious accounts.
According to Facebook, it has stopped a global campaign to spread false information about corona vaccinations. The US group deleted 65 Facebook accounts and 243 Instagram accounts from Russia that had attempted to discredit corona vaccines.
Facebook was able to link the accounts to Fazze, a subsidiary of a marketing company registered in the United Kingdom, whose activities were mainly carried out from Russia.
“This (Fazze) campaign worked like a disinformation washing machine,” says the Facebook transparency report. “She created misleading articles and petitions on various forums such as Reddit, Medium, Change.org and Medapply.” The content was then shared via fake accounts on social media – including Facebook and Instagram – in order to disseminate and reinforce it.
It also said that “gross spamming tactics” were used. “The main point of the campaign, however, seemed to be to get influencers with an existing audience on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok to post content and use certain hashtags without revealing the origin of the posts.”
The influential YouTuber Mirko Drotschmann (“MrWissen2Go”) is one of the influencers in Germany who have refused to participate in the campaign. He had made the recruitment attempt public on Twitter in May.
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