NATO Must Adapt To Global Not Just Russian Threats - Report

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Commissioned amid doubts about the purpose and relevance of an alliance branded as "brain dead" last year by French President Emmanuel Macron, the report also cited the need for NATO to help against militant attacks, develop a strategy for its southern flank and be more prepared for technological changes.

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KYIV, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Ukraine has lifted weekend lockdown restrictions in place to fight the spread of the coronavirus pandemic but is still considering whether to introduce a tighter lockdown at a later stage, Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said on Wednesday.

The 6,000-word memo, written by a former Facebook data scientist and seen by BuzzFeed News, said the site reacted slowly to evidence of coordinated campaigns to influence political results globally. Facebook reportedly ignored fake accounts being used to undermine elections via misinformation posted on the social media platform, according to a leaked memo.

Facebook only began investigating the Azerbaijan incident a year after Zhang reported it, according to the report, and it took nine months for Facebook's leadership to act on a Honduran misinformation campaign. She pointed to examples of coordinated campaigns being used to mislead people in the US, Honduras, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Ukraine, Spain, India, Bolivia and Ecuador in the reported memo.

today it faces two systemic rivals, the enduring threat of terrorism, instability along NATO's southern periphery," the report by a group of experts said, referring to China and Russia. "Where NATO faced one big threat in the Cold War ...

Some of the pages and groups they managed claimed to be hacktivist groups. This network posted about current events, including the Syrian civil war, and politics in several countries such as Ukraine, Russia and the US. These accounts posed as journalists and locals in countries they targeted. They tried to get Facebook users to visit other websites, links which the social network said it has blocked.

The largest network of Russian-linked accounts that Facebook announced on Thursday it took down had ties to the Russian military and military intelligence services. The fake accounts mostly focused primarily on Syria and Ukraine. Facebook removed 214 Facebook users, 35 Pages, 18 Groups and 34 Instagram accounts in that network. They also targeted Turkey, Japan, Armenia, Georgia, Belarus, and Moldova. There was a small amount of activity that focused on the UK and the US. 

KYIV, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Ukraine has lifted weekend lockdown restrictions in place to fight the spread of the coronavirus pandemic but is still considering whether to introduce a tighter lockdown at a later stage, Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said on Wednesday.

About 59,000 accounts followed one or more of these Pages and around 2,000 people followed one or more of these Instagram accounts.  They posed as editors and researchers to get people to write articles for their sites. They posted about politics in various countries including the US. Facebook pulled 23 Facebook accounts, 6 Pages, and 8 Instagram accounts in this network. The network of Russian-linked accounts that had the most following were tied to Russian intelligence services.

During the 2018 elections, Facebook had to remove more than 10 million fake reactions and followers from politicians in the US and Brazil, the report says. And Facebook was more focused on spam removal rather than the societal impact of coordinated attacks, according to the reported memo.



I know that I have blood on my hands by now." "I have personally made decisions that affected national presidents without oversight ... "In the three years I've spent at Facebook, I've found multiple blatant attempts by foreign national governments to abuse our platform on vast scales to mislead their own citizenry," the memo reportedly says.

"For each of these (networks), there's a risk that between now and the election they could pivot to start to engage in the United States and so we're proactively removing them to prevent that risk from occurring," said Nathaniel Gleicher, who heads security policy at Facebook during a press conference.

The report, which will be presented to NATO leaders at a planned summit next year, also seeks to address strains between allies who have held up decision-making, such as Turkey and Hungary, although it does not mention them by name.

"The civic aspect was discounted because of its small volume, its disproportionate impact ignored." "Overall, the focus of my organization -- and most of Facebook -- was on large-scale problems, an approach which fixated us on spam," Zhang reportedly wrote.

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