Facebook Removed Suspicious Pages Linked to russia

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Facebook has removed multiple Pages, groups and accounts that engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram.

The two operations we found originated in russia, and one was active in a variety of countries while the other was specific to Ukraine. We didn’t find any links between these operations, but they used similar tactics by creating networks of accounts to mislead others about who they were and what they were doing.

Facebook deleted 364 Pages and accounts for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior 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 Page administrators and account owners primarily represented themselves as independent news Pages or general interest Pages on topics like weather, travel, sports, economics, or politicians in Romania, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, russia, and Kyrgyzstan.

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.

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