Russia, Iran and China are likely to conduct influence operations via fake social media accounts ahead of the 2024 election, a new Meta report says.

The firm Graphika is pitching a software-based multistakeholder threat center to track, share and analyze disinformation at scale.

The operations likely emanated from the U.S. and the United Kingdom, but conclusive attribution is not yet available.

The analysis shows that what was thought of as a straightforward DDoS tool was so much more.

Nicaragua's government has, for years, weaponized Facebook to try to discredit student protesters and boost official narratives, the company says.

The new policies directly build on Facebook's security work cracking down on inauthentic coordinated behavior.

It’s the latest in a series of scrubs Facebook has made for foreign influence operations heading into the U.S. presidential election.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Putin ally, has been focused on raising the Kremlin’s profile in Africa.

The action follows an independent BuzzFeed investigation.

The unrelated efforts in Eastern Europe and the Middle East are the latest examples of how the social media giant's reach is exploited.