{"id":502158,"date":"2025-12-12T20:26:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T17:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=502158"},"modified":"2025-12-13T11:50:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T08:50:59","slug":"meta-exposes-influence-network-operating-from-belarus-against-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/meta-exposes-influence-network-operating-from-belarus-against-poland","title":{"rendered":"Meta Exposes Influence Network Operating From Belarus Against Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Meta has announced the removal of a network engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior that was operating from Belarus and targeting a Polish audience. An internal investigation identified signs of an organized foreign influence campaign linked to Belarus and Russia, according to the company\u2019s Adversarial Threat Report for the second and third quarters of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Meta removed four Facebook accounts and 12 Facebook pages, as well as 21 Instagram accounts, for violating the platform\u2019s policies on coordinated inauthentic behavior. Approximately 200 accounts followed one or more of the Facebook pages, and around 3,300 accounts followed one or more of the removed Instagram accounts. The network\u2019s operators spent about 1,800 US dollars, in US dollars and Polish zloty, on Facebook and Instagram advertising to promote content and expand their audience.<\/p>\n<p>The network primarily focused on issues related to Poland\u2019s migration policy and the country\u2019s relations with the European Union and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00ab<\/span>We observed that the network\u2019s operators strategically distributed messages focused on Poland\u2019s migration policy, as well as the country\u2019s relations with the European Union and Ukraine. The operation employed sophisticated impersonation techniques: fake accounts ran targeted advertisements falsely presenting themselves as Poland\u2019s ruling Civic Coalition and promoted content about the coalition\u2019s policies that was deliberately designed to appear controversial to opposition audiences.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>In addition, the network actively amplified materials from a targeted hack-and-leak campaign against a Polish Member of the European Parliament, demonstrating a combination of information dissemination operations using cyber techniques and manipulative tactics on social media platforms<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00bb<\/span>,<\/i> the report states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has announced the removal of a network engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior that was operating from Belarus and targeting a Polish audience. An internal investigation identified signs of an organized foreign influence campaign linked to Belarus and Russia, according to the company\u2019s Adversarial Threat Report for the second and third quarters of 2025. Meta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":502157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/693d28fae402d.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Meta Exposes Influence Network Operating From Belarus Against Poland"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}