https://qz.com/1244226/facebook-just-took-down-270-accounts-and-pages-run-by-russias-internet-research-agency/ >Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the platform took down 270 accounts and pages that originated from the Internet Research Agency, the Russian “troll factory” that is said to be responsible for interfering in foreign elections, including the 2016 presidential vote in the United States. This time, their meddling was directed Russian citizens. >“We’ve found the IRA has been using complex networks of fake accounts to deceive people. While we respect people and governments sharing political views on Facebook, we do not allow them to set up fake accounts to do this,” Zuckerberg said. The pages and accounts the company removed, he said, were taken down not because of the content they shared, but because of who runs them. “We don’t want them on Facebook anywhere in the world,” Zuckerberg wrote.