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Trump's Russian promoters
RT News (Russia Today) propaganda seems to be spreading quickly around social media.
It's an echo chamber against the MSM, complete with accusations about "fake news".
Facebook restores previously suspended Russia-linked pages
Source: The Hill
Facebook on Monday restored four Russia-linked pages geared towards millennials that it suspended earlier this month.
The pages, run by Maffick Media, now include disclaimers disclosing their affiliations with the Russian government.
"We reached out to Maffick Media to request that they disclose the affiliation of their Pages with its parent companies," a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement to The Hill. "The required information has now been added to the About section of these Pages to indicate their affiliation with RT and Ruptly so people can learn who's behind the Pages they're interacting with on Facebook."
Maffick Media's majority stakeholder is Ruptly, a subsidiary of the Kremlin-funded RT, a fact that was not previously highlighted in the pages' descriptions....
Source: The Hill
Facebook on Monday restored four Russia-linked pages geared towards millennials that it suspended earlier this month.
The pages, run by Maffick Media, now include disclaimers disclosing their affiliations with the Russian government.
"We reached out to Maffick Media to request that they disclose the affiliation of their Pages with its parent companies," a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement to The Hill. "The required information has now been added to the About section of these Pages to indicate their affiliation with RT and Ruptly so people can learn who's behind the Pages they're interacting with on Facebook."
Maffick Media's majority stakeholder is Ruptly, a subsidiary of the Kremlin-funded RT, a fact that was not previously highlighted in the pages' descriptions....
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/431497-facebook-restores-previously-suspended-russia-linked-pages
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