Facebook removed more than 100 pages and accounts affiliated with convicted Republican operative Roger Stone, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, for trafficking in…
Facebook removed more than 100 pages and accounts affiliated with convicted Republican operative Roger Stone, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, for trafficking in false information dating to at least 2015.
Nathaniel Gleicher, the social media giant’s chief of security policy, said Stone used Facebook to manipulate the public conversation in the U. S. That kind of „coordinated inauthentic behavior“ violates Facebook’s rules.
Much of the activity, according to Gleicher, occurred just before and after the 2016 presidential election and included the posting of Democratic Party emails released by Wikileaks. The emails, damaging to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, were stolen by Russian hackers.
„We first started looking into this network as part of our investigation into the Proud Boys,“ Gleicher said, referring to the far right extremist group with ties to white nationalism that was banned from the platform in 2018.
