Facebook on Thursday said it had removed hundreds of pages that originated in Russia for engaging in «coordinated inauthentic behavior» on its site, including a network of accounts that touched on regional weather and sports but actually served as way for Russian state-owned media to secretly reach social media users.
Facebook on Thursday said it had removed hundreds of pages that originated in Russia for engaging in «coordinated inauthentic behavior» on its site, including a network of accounts that touched on regional weather and sports but actually served as way for Russian state-owned media to secretly reach social media users.
The tech giant’s latest takedown — announced in an early morning blog post — included more than 300 pages that primarily targeted regions including Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The pages represented themselves as independent news sites or hubs for information about travel, economics and local politicians, Facebook said. But they each had undisclosed links to employees of Sputnik.
