Facebook closes hundreds of 'inauthentic' Russia-linked pages
https://phys.org/news/2019-01-facebook-hundreds-inauthentic-russia-linked-pages.html
"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," Nathaniel Gleicher, the head of Facebook's cybersecurity policy, said in a post.
He said 364 pages and accounts were removed that posed as independent news sites or general interest sites but were found to be linked to employees of Sputnik, a Moscow-based news agency.
Facebook closes hundreds of 'inauthentic' Russia-linked pages
Jan 17, 2019, 3:19pm UTC
https://phys.org/news/2019-01-facebook-hundreds-inauthentic-russia-linked-pages.html
> "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," Nathaniel Gleicher, the head of Facebook's cybersecurity policy, said in a post.
> He said 364 pages and accounts were removed that posed as independent news sites or general interest sites but were found to be linked to employees of Sputnik, a Moscow-based news agency.