Facebook, Twitter Remove More Russian-Backed Fake Accounts Ahead Of Election

This network focused mainly on"the Far East, Russia's neighboring countries, and Syria," and posted about news and current events,"including the Syrian civil war, Turkish domestic politics, geopolitical issues in the Asia-Pacific region, NATO, the war in Ukraine, and politics in the Baltics, Georgia, Armenia, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, and the US." Facebook said the network had"almost no following" when it was removed.

A second smaller network was also connected to Russian intelligence and involved 37 accounts and pages, focusing mainly on Belarus and other neighboring countries. Facebook said the third network, of just 10 accounts, pages and groups, was linked to the Internet Research Agency. It focused primarily on Turkey, Europe and the U.S., posting links to articles on an outside website it controlled called United World International.

Twitter said it took down two networks of accounts that it attributed to state-linked entities in Russia. One involved about 345 largely inactive accounts that Twitter said were linked to previous Russian hacking attempts. A second set of about 10 accounts promoted the same United World International website that Facebook said was connected to the Internet Research Agency.

Yea, right!!! Never should have accepted the rubles in the first place!!

Too little too late . His unchecked propaganda platform is destroying democracy .

3 of how many?! FB isn’t doing enough. FB needs to be fined and shut down.

Waiting for the stories on Chinese intelligence and government interference................waiting....waiting........

Fb is still 💩 🖕 Zuckerberg!

only 4 years later great job zuk

National Propaganda Radio has become as fake as the China News Network, and the Cartoon Broadcasting System CBSNews

So... not a hoax. And they’re still at it. Got it.

Hahahaha. Here we go again. Nobody is believing this crap anymore.

Good.

Keep going.

Company gets major news coverage for doing bare minimum

You're just doing your job....I just hope that more haven't 'accidentally' slipped through the cracks.

Only 3?

And how many more have they ignored

Not enough Fuckerberg, democracy dies in Facebook.

Wow a whole 3 ...

I think just take FB down.

And they still haven’t begun to scratch the surface on getting rid of them all.

What about the President Obama election interference on President Trump? Oh wait this is NPR you don't report news.

Now do something about Myanmar and Ethiopia

Lies! Lies! More lies! Propaganda of the left. If they really were eliminating election interference, then they’d block the real interference from China & North Korea...they’re just relying on American ignorance and post Cold War fear mongering.

Not nearly enough, I am sure.

I may go on Facebook after Jan 20;2021.

Halfway there...Keep looking. You get that setting up new accounts are free.

Not good enough there are several thousand

I can't believe people still buy this crap.

Damage already done! 🤦‍♂️

And in the process many legitimate accounts have been swept up and removed along with the nefarious players.

OHHHHH

Sounds like the activity of every MSM account...

Can you say Trump sleeps with the enemy in order to build a Trump hotel in Russia. TrumpIsALaughingStock Like the world would never figure it out. realDonaldTrump The Family business is going down with you.

Awesome. We can now move on from blaming Russia for everything.

Now who’s going to help Trump

None from China?

Then why is realDonaldTrump ‘s account still active?

Oh crap. I just realized that we, in the US, are now ironically a Banana Republic, but just lacking bananas.

They are also delete real accounts of people who support Trump 😤

Only a hundred?

For the love of Mother Russia...

'involved in PREVIOUS efforts'? 'Facebook's head of security policy, said...the operations did not focus on the U.S., gained little following and did not directly target the 2020 presidential election.' FB is 4 years behind & just straight up ignoring what's happening NOW

Well, they’ve been given a green light. Mueller wasn’t able to do anything to them and Barr said it’s not big deal.

THEY REMOVED ME AS WELL AND I HAVE BEEN ON FB FOR 12 YEARS. THEY ARE WIPING OUT PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE TRUMP, DON'T LET THEM FOOL YOU.

Cool! As an encore go ahead and do several hundred more, please.

Well then, Why does Trump still have an account?

Does that mean trump lost his account ?

you sure voted in a winner, right wing

Can Facebook and twitter just be blocked in Russia for atleast 40 days?

Would be nice if they published a list of the names of those accounts and a sample of the misinformation they are peddling.

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