Surge in Fake 2024 Election Accounts on X

Fake accounts on the social media platform X that have been spreading false information about the upcoming election are rapidly proliferating across the platform, a social media analysis reported by Reuters found.

Cyabra, an Israeli tech company, shared a report in which they used a subset of artificial intelligence, called machine learning, to identify fake accounts.

The Israeli company reviewed posts on X from March to April and found that fake accounts praising or attacking President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump exponentially increased over this two-month period.

Cyabra’s analysts found that 15% of those accounts advocating Trump and criticizing Biden were fake, and the same is true for 7% of accounts endorsing Biden and attacking Trump.

Specifically, the report revealed that 12,391 out of 94,363 profiles supporting Trump were fake. In contrast, 803 out of 10,065 accounts promoting Biden were found to be inauthentic.

The report also found that those pro-Trump profiles were part of a larger coordinated campaign. They were promoting two messages: “Vote for Trump” and “Biden is the worst president the U.S. has ever had.”

“The level of coordination suggests that there is a nefarious objective and that there is a whole operation in order to change people’s opinion,” Cyabra’s vice president, Rafi Mendelsohn, told Reuters.

Alternatively, fake accounts supporting Biden did not appear to be part of a coordinated effort, the report said, because they lacked specific indicators like simultaneous postings.

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Cyabra’s analysis did not say where the fake accounts were coming from.

Earlier this month, the FBI warned that China, Russia, and Iran are among the foreign adversaries that are attempting to influence the 2024 election.