Some other people connected to the Russian online troll organization who tried to interfere in the 2016 presidential election on social media are there again, Facebook announced in a report Tuesday.
The social media giant said he got rid of a “small network” of accounts and pages created through other people he said were “associated” with the Internet Investigation Agency after receiving the FBI recommendation.
The St. Petersburg-based organization had embarked in the past on a coordinated online effort to influence the 2016 elections, Robert Mueller’s special report on Russian interference suggests.
In this recent maxim, thirteen accounts and two pages were removed for violating Facebook’s foreign interference policy, the company said.The effort in his childhood and repressed before gaining a giant audience, Facebook said.
While still active on the site, the organization created fake left-wing accounts “to create elaborate fictional characters, manage pages, post in teams, and take others to their site off the platform by posing as an independent medium basically founded in Romania.”the report says.
These accounts “operated in various Internet installations and used fake names and profile pictures” and “pretended to be country editors, adding the United States,” he said.
Facebook periodically deleted accounts that accused of an un authentic habit similar to Russia and foreign countries.
About a dozen “deceptive campaigns similar to those relevant to those relevant to the [Internet Research Agency]” have stopped since 2017, Facebook said.
Twitter also announced Tuesday that it had suspended five accounts connected to one of the same pages, Peacedata, which the company said could be “reliably attributed [d] to Russian state actors.”
After Facebook’s announcement, the FBI said the workplace had provided data on the network “to further oppose the country’s security threats and our democratic processes.”
“We take into consideration the strategic commitment to US-generation corporations to the US.The U.S. includes the exchange of risk indicators, to be critically important in combating malicious foreign-influenced actors,” the FBI said.”While generation corporations make independent decisions about the content of their platforms and the safety of their members, the FBI actively engages with our federal partners, election officials, and the personal sector to mitigate risks outside the security of our country and our elections.
Concerns about Russian interference before the 2020 elections have increased in the run-up to the election.In February, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned the House Judiciary Committee that Russia was waging an “information war” on social media to sow discord by 2020.elections, he said he had not noticed direct evidence that they were looking to target the electoral infrastructure.
In June, two Democrats from the House Intelligence Committee expressed fear of efforts by foreign adversaries to “exploit high tensions in the United States by spreading misinformation, inciting violence, or using any other means for a foreign program that is not of the most productive interest.”national safety, public health and safety.”
Then, last month, the U.S. intelligence network warned in a statement that Russia was “using a series of measures to primarily denigrate former President Biden and what he considers an “anti-Russian establishment.”
“Some Kremlin-linked actors are also looking to bolster President Trump’s candidacy on social media and Russian television,” he said.At the same time, he noted that China and Iran are running for undermining Trump.
Russia has largely denied accusations of interference in 2016.In 2018, the Justice Department filed opposite fees with the Internet Research Agency and several other defendants related to the alleged campaign of influence, which allegedly included the use of fake social media accounts.IRA did not respond to the fees and in March the Justice Department dropped its case opposing another defendant, saying that a conviction opposing one of the defendants may simply disclose law enforcement methods.
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