It’s bad enough when you see that relative reposting some crazy conspiracy content. But where do *they* get it from?

Turns out it may be coming from their friends’ compromised accounts. Sometimes it’s not super obvious… but sometimes it is.

The screenshot at the top of this post appeared at first to be from a former battleship shipmate of mine. I was about to gently correct him when I realized that all of his posts had gone off the deep end…and were not consistent in ideology. Also, there was an email address in his bio to “get the account back”— it had been hacked and turned into a conspiracy spam delivery network node.

Compromised Facebook accounts are monetized in lots of ways. Some are sold for use by romance scammers (including pig butchering) , or for other sorts of fraud. And some are used to drop spam for drop-ship schemes. But some are clearly being used as part of massive disinformation schemes.

Meta does very little about this.