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📩 Our May newsletter is out! It talks about our work with the @mozilla Foundation, #FacebookHustles, and more.

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Read it here ⤵️
https://sh1.sendinblue.com/3g9damjxzlxpfe.html?t=1714737847

Last year, our team exposed a large-scale scam operation, recruiting its victims on Facebook through ads. Its name? #FacebookHustles.

🔎 Watch this video to understand the three main steps it follows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiLBFOgCrvk

❌ Almost one year later, similar ads can still easily be found on Meta's services: https://checkfirst.network/facebook-hustles-continued-european-commission-cracks-down-on-meta-for-letting-fraudulent-ads-through/

✨ Don't miss this brilliant investigation by @aiforensics_org. Insightful & precise. Very happy to be mentioned twice: for our #FacebookHustles research and our recent study with @mozilla.
https://aiforensics.org/work/meta-political-ads

🗣️ Don't miss the insights shared by our CEO @gkuster on France 24 and Public Sénat about the digital threats on EU elections
#FacebookHustles #UpNextReport
🔗 https://www.publicsenat.fr/emission/ici-leurope/lunion-europeenne-sous-la-menace-de-la-desinformation-et-des-cyberattaques-e26
🔗 https://www.france24.com/fr/%C3%A9missions/ici-l-europe/20240322-menace-sur-les-%C3%A9lections-europ%C3%A9ennes-l-ue-cible-d-intox-et-de-cyberattaques

The cat and mouse game is not efficient enough. Checkfirst's @gkuster on France 24 talked about digital threats on EU elections.

He discussed our investigations #FacebookHustles and #UpNextReport, reminding that Youtube favored far-right content during the Finnish Presidential race.💻 ⤵️
https://www.france24.com/fr/%C3%A9missions/ici-l-europe/20240322-menace-sur-les-%C3%A9lections-europ%C3%A9ennes-l-ue-cible-d-intox-et-de-cyberattaques

We're really pleased to see our #FacebookHustles investigation included in this AFP
Factuel article! You can read more about the large-scale scam operation we uncovered in 2023 here 👉🏼 https://t.co/ZHVk41IvBN
https://factuel.afp.com/doc.afp.com.34H47PC

@gkuster Some numbers:
15 days of data collection
1500+ ads
150+ fake media websites
50+ fake products
#FacebookHustles
#Disinfo2023

It's the attention economy, stupid! Our CEO @gkuster presents #FacebookHustles this afternoon, our latest investigation where we uncovered a vast scam machinery embodying media outlets to lure users in get-rich-quick schemes. #Disinfo2023

Didn't get the chance to hear @gkuster talking about #FacebookHustles, our investigation on a large-scale scam operation impersonating #media organizations to lure victims into a (fake) get-rich-quick scheme? Watch the replay: https://checkfirst.network/watch-the-replay-edmo-belux-lunch-lecture-facebook-hustles/

Many thanks to EDMO Belux for welcoming us for this Lunch Lecture!

📆 Save the date! After the summer break, #EdmoBelux Lunch Lecture re-launches on 4 September at 12:00-13:00 CEST, with Guillaume Kuster, our CEO and Co-Founder as guest speaker. He will present our latest investigation on a large-scale #scam operation impersonating media organizations to lure victims into a (fake) get-rich-quick scheme #FacebookHustles. Don't forget to register: https://checkfirst.network/event/edmo-belux-lunch-lecture-facebook-hustles-4-september-2023/