Facebook takes down fake account network used to spread hate in UK

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More than 100 false accounts posed as far-right and leftwing activists to sow division, says company

Facebook has removed a network of more than 100 accounts and pages for “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” on its social networks – the first time it has done so for UK-based operations seeking to influence British citizens.

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MPs and the mainstream media do it 🤷‍♂️

Welp, there goes most of Tommy Robinson's support online. Now he's just stuck with the little band of IRL troglodytes.

Appreciation! In today's rapidly growing technological world, it is really important to check misuses..

Why didn’t it take down the *real* account disseminating hate in the UK?

Is it Turning Point?

Hmmm

Ha. One of thousands that are just as bad or worse. GMAB

Only under enormous pressure🙄

One down, thousands to go.

'the operation was apparently intended “to counter far-right representations of Muslims'' So who were they impersonating, and for what purpose? Or does 'the operation' here refer to the efforts to take down these accounts, and not the network itself?

JuliaHB1 Will have to get her kicks from funny cat pics like the rest of us

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