OAKLAND, CalifArray — Facebook said Tuesday that it had disposed of a small network of accounts and pages connected to the Russian Internet Research Agency, the “troll factory” that uses social media accounts to sow political discord in the United States.United States since the 2016 presidential election.
The other people who the accounts recruited “involuntary” freelance journalists to publish in English and Arabic, basically targeting left-wing audiences.Facebook said Tuesday that network activity was aimed at the US, UK, Algeria and Egypt and other Countries in English.Spanish-speaking countries and countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
The company said it had begun investigating the FBI’s INFORMATION-based network about its activities outside of Facebook.The network was in the early stages of development, Added Facebook, and saw “almost no compromise” on Facebook before it was removed.
However, his presence underscores Russia’s ongoing efforts to disrupt US elections and sow political discord in an already divided country. To evade detection, the other people in the network recruited Americans to make their offer, probably unknowingly, either as bloodhounds and as other legal persons to buy political classifieds in the United States.
Facebook said the other people on the network had published articles on global occasions ranging from racial justice in the UNITED States and the United Kingdom to NATO, the QAnon conspiracy, the presidential crusade of President Donald Trump and Joe Biden.The network spent about $480 on Facebook advertising, most commonly in U.S. dollars, a sign that it was able to evade at least briefly designated systems to prevent foreign entities from buying U.S. political ads.
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