Disinformation Centre: Russia Recruits Foreigners for War via Meta and Google
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Russia recruits foreigners for war through Meta, Google, and Facebook - CSD <p>Russian recruiters lure foreigners to war through Western platforms, offering jobs and payouts up to $15 thousand. Meta and Google blocking campaigns, but Russia continues to create new accounts</p>.
The researchers identified 89 websites, seven social media accounts, and 39 messenger accounts or channels used in these operations.
Russia is using increasingly sophisticated ways to recruit foreigners for war against Ukraine, and young men from poor countries are even offered to participate in filmmaking.
Russia has found a new way to recruit soldiers through online advertising, masking its ads as vacancies. 😲 Earnings several times higher than in real life, lure young men from Africa, Asia and Belarus to the war against Ukraine. 🚨 While Western companies try to respond, new recruitment sites keep popping up.
The Russian recruitment system has found a new way to compensate for losses in the war against Ukraine without new waves of mobilization
Disinformation Centre: Russia Recruits Foreigners for War via Meta and Google
Ukraine’s Centre for Countering Disinformation says Russian recruiters use Meta, Google and other services to target young men in Africa and Asia, often masking enlistment as civilian jobs.
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