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Facebook kills over 300 Russia-linked fake accounts, Pages
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IANS | 18 Jan, 2019
Social networking giant Facebook on Thursday killed over 300 fake Pages
and accounts linked to Russia that it said was "engaging in coordinated
inauthentic behaviour", almost two years after the US presidential
election.
The social media giant removed 364 Pages and accounts
as part of a network that originated in Russia and operated in the
Baltics, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Central and Eastern European
countries.
"The two operations we found originated in Russia, and
one was active in a variety of countries while the other was specific
to Ukraine.
"Despite their misrepresentations of their
identities, we found that these Pages and accounts were linked to
employees of Sputnik, a news agency based in Moscow, and that some of
the Pages frequently posted about topics like anti-NATO sentiment,
protest movements, and anti-corruption," Nathaniel Gleicher, Head of
Cybersecurity Policy, Facebook, wrote in a blog post.
About $135,000 were spent in ads, and paid for in euros, roubles and dollars, over a time span from October 2013 to now.
Around 790,000 accounts followed one or more of these Pages (now taken down) on the social media platform.
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