So We Meet Again, Botiful: Latent Fake Ad Network Persists on Meta Two Years Since Doppelganger
Research note showing Meta continues to overlook large-scale networks of automated dormant fake pages reused for political and scam advertising, including Kremlin-affiliated Doppelganger campaigns targeting the EU and Moldova.
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In this research note Reset Tech revisited the Doppelganger operation two years on, finding that Meta still hosts large latent networks of automated, dormant fake pages that can be switched on for political and scam advertising.
The reactivated assets were used for Kremlin-affiliated campaigns targeting EU audiences and Moldova, echoing the same coordinated inauthentic-behaviour patterns Reset Tech had documented earlier, which Meta had not durably dismantled.
The note concludes that Meta's response to Doppelganger has been superficial and reiterates that enforcement must target the persistent fake-page networks, not just the ads they carry.
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