Facebook removes hundreds of fake Russian pages operating in Europe and Asia
The Russian trolls have been busy.
Facebook said in a blog post published Thursday that it has removed over 500 Facebook accounts, pages, and Instagram profiles linked to Russia for "coordinated inauthentic behavior." That means misrepresenting the true identity of the accounts, and using social media to exert influence on others.
Russian state-linked news organizations created the fake accounts, and they operated between 2013 and the present, mostly in Eastern Europe, with one network of pages specifically working in Ukraine. Some of the networks used methods akin to the Internet Research Agency, the organization indicted by US Special Counsel Robert Mueller II for attempting to influence the 2016 US presidential election. Read more...
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Facebook removes hundreds of fake Russian pages operating in Europe and Asia
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