Facebook Nabs Russia-linked Campaign to Fuel US Chaos

[LiberalArkie]

Facebook on Tuesday said that it caught a budding Russia-linked campaign to fuel political chaos in the US, working off a tip from the FBI in its latest take-down of coordinated inauthentic behavior at the leading social network.

The network of 13 Facebook accounts and two pages posing as journalists and targeting left-wing progressives was removed for violating a policy against "foreign interference" at the platform.

The investigation that uncovered the covert operation, which was linked to the Internet Research Agency in Russia (IRA), started with a tip from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to Facebook head of security policy Nathaniel Gleicher.

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The campaign targeted its audience with English-language content focused heavily on a small number of political groups, including Democratic Socialists, environmentalists, and disgruntled Democrats in the US, according to an analysis by Graphika.

A consistent target of the network was left-leaning voters in Britain and the US with the potential to be dissuaded from supporting centrist leadership of the Democratic and Labour parties, Graphika determined.

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https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/09/01/facebook-nabs-russia-linked-campaign-to-fuel-us-chaos-a71315

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