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# Incident I00081: Belarus KGB created fake accounts to criticize Poland during border crisis, Facebook parent company says
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* **Summary:** <i>“Meta, the parent company of Facebook, said it has linked Belarus’s main security service, the KGB, to fake accounts on its social media platforms that criticized Poland during the countries’ recent border standoff.”</I>
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| Reference | Pub Date | Authors | Org | Archive |
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| [https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/meta-belarus-kgb-poland-facebook/2021/12/02/ffaa73f8-534d-11ec-83d2-d9dab0e23b7e_story.html](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/meta-belarus-kgb-poland-facebook/2021/12/02/ffaa73f8-534d-11ec-83d2-d9dab0e23b7e_story.html) | 2021/12/02 | Isabelle Khurshudyan | The Washington Post | [https://web.archive.org/web/20211202114247/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/meta-belarus-kgb-poland-facebook/2021/12/02/ffaa73f8-534d-11ec-83d2-d9dab0e23b7e_story.html](https://web.archive.org/web/20211202114247/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/meta-belarus-kgb-poland-facebook/2021/12/02/ffaa73f8-534d-11ec-83d2-d9dab0e23b7e_story.html) |
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| [T0097.101 Local Persona](../../generated_pages/techniques/T0097.101.md) | IT00000285 <i>“Meta said it also removed 31 Facebook accounts, four groups, two events and four Instagram accounts that it believes originated in Poland and targeted Belarus and Iraq. Those allegedly fake accounts posed as Middle Eastern migrants posting about the border crisis. Meta did not link the accounts to a specific group.<br><br> ““These fake personas claimed to be sharing their own negative experiences of trying to get from Belarus to Poland and posted about migrants’ difficult lives in Europe,” Meta said. “They also posted about Poland’s strict anti-migrant policies and anti-migrant neo-Nazi activity in Poland. They also shared links to news articles criticizing the Belarusian government’s handling of the border crisis and off-platform videos alleging migrant abuse in Europe.””</i><br><br> In this example accounts falsely presented themselves as having local insight into the border crisis narrative (T0097.101: Local Persona, T0143.002: Fabricated Persona). |
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| [T0143.002 Fabricated Persona](../../generated_pages/techniques/T0143.002.md) | IT00000286 <i>“Meta said it also removed 31 Facebook accounts, four groups, two events and four Instagram accounts that it believes originated in Poland and targeted Belarus and Iraq. Those allegedly fake accounts posed as Middle Eastern migrants posting about the border crisis. Meta did not link the accounts to a specific group.<br><br> ““These fake personas claimed to be sharing their own negative experiences of trying to get from Belarus to Poland and posted about migrants’ difficult lives in Europe,” Meta said. “They also posted about Poland’s strict anti-migrant policies and anti-migrant neo-Nazi activity in Poland. They also shared links to news articles criticizing the Belarusian government’s handling of the border crisis and off-platform videos alleging migrant abuse in Europe.””</i><br><br> In this example accounts falsely presented themselves as having local insight into the border crisis narrative (T0097.101: Local Persona, T0143.002: Fabricated Persona). |
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