报道
Facebook 自己的付款正在助长针对澳大利亚领导人的人工智能造假
原语言视频
译自英文原文。
多年来，人们担心选举中的人工智能会被有明确目的的外国间谍机构利用。但澳大利亚出现的情况却更为粗劣，也以自己的方式更具腐蚀性：一家外国企业打着收益的算盘。2026年9月9日发表的一项新研究发现，一个与斯里兰卡有关联的行动建立了 200 多个 Facebook 页面，利用人工智能深度伪造冒充澳大利亚政客，其目的不是让任何人当选，而是赚钱2。
200+冒充政客的澳大利亚相关页面 2
1,864全球网络中的协调行动页面 2
5.9M该网络页面触达的用户 2
十分之一的页面都在赚钱
作为人类，当我们看到有人说了什么，通常会相信说话的人就是那个人。
已知
未知
- Meta 尚未公开确认删除了相关页面，eSafety、澳大利亚选举委员会或内政部也未宣布展开调查。
- 运营这些账户的斯里兰卡公司名称，以及它从这项计划中获利多少。
后续
- Meta 是否会删除被举报的页面，还是继续向其付款。
- 澳大利亚和另外六个遭到针对的民主国家是否会将商业垃圾宣传视为安全与选举诚信威胁。
相关人物
- Rys FarthingReset.Tech 首席研究官
- David Pocock遭深度伪造视频针对的独立参议员
- Tony Burke遭该网络针对的内政部长
- Ange LavoipierreABC News 全国科技记者
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播出原貌
- Facebook's own payouts fueled a network faking Australia's political leaders. More than 200 pages impersonated the prime minister and opposition figures — part of an operation reaching nearly six million people across seven countries. The operators were not activists. They were being paid. The question now is whether anyone stops them.
- The research is from Reset.Tech, an independent nonprofit that maps digital harms, led by its chief research officer, Dr Rys Farthing. After eight months of tracking, the conclusion is blunt: this is commercial, not political — foreign influence for commercial motivations, and a foreign distortion of Australian political discourse. The team explicitly rejects the assumption that such networks are state-sponsored interference. The operators, they found, iterate on whatever generates clicks and revenue, regardless of whom it damages.
- One in ten of the network's pages had been monetized through Facebook's scheme that pays content creators — the same incentive that pays any page owner for engagement, whatever the content.
- The Australia-focused pages are one slice of a coordinated network — 1,864 pages in total, reaching an estimated 5.9 million users. The same Sri Lanka-linked operation ran in France, Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Mexico. Because the same monetization engine was firing at six other democracies at once, the enforcement gap is not an Australian problem alone.
- The pages impersonated Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Opposition Leader Angus Taylor, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson, Senator David Pocock, Senator Fatima Payman, Allegra Spender, and Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke. Some summaries also name former prime minister John Howard. They ran under mass-appeal names like "I Love Australia" and "Beautiful Australia" — built to look like Australia itself before turning political.
- Some pages began as bait, then shifted to politics. The content came mostly as short Reels — nationalistic, anti-migrant and anti-Muslim messaging, bogus polls to drive engagement, and sexualized AI images and videos of female politicians. One fake clip showed Senator Fatima Payman asking not to be deported to Afghanistan. Another showed Senator David Pocock claiming he had joined forces with One Nation.
- Across the targeted Australian posts researchers observed, only one in three carried an AI label, and just one in thirty-three was deleted — even though the content broke Facebook's own rules on inauthentic behavior, hate speech, and AI deepfakes. A small research team mapped the network with relative ease. The researchers question why a platform with far greater resources could not.
- No removals had been confirmed when the report was published.
- Pocock said his team has been sent a bunch of deepfakes of him over the last few months, and that he is concerned they genuinely undermine the democratic system. Their business model, he said, is based on outrage, on eyeballs on the screens for as long as possible, and on clicks.
- Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke — himself targeted by the same network — said he has seen videos and interviews of colleagues saying things they never said, and urged Australians to check their sources. So far, no Australian authority, whether the eSafety commissioner, the electoral commission, or the Home Affairs department, has announced an investigation or referral. Whether this network is treated by Meta as a policy violation, or by governments as a security threat, remains the open question.
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