Twitter and Facebook announced Tuesday that they had suspended accounts connected to a small Russian-influenced operation posing as an independent media outlet aimed at the left-wing electorate in the United States and Britain.
The accounts were connected to a so-called Peace Data, which allegedly hired freelance journalists to write about domestic policy as a component of the manipulation scheme.
The operation is believed to have focused on U.S. politics and racial tensions in the run-up to the November 3 presidential election.
Social media analytics firm Graphika reported that one component of the objective of the operation is to move the left-wing electorate away from Joe Biden’s campaign.
Facebook on Monday suspended thirteen Facebook accounts and two pages connected to a Russian influence operation that posed as an independent means of communication for left-wing voters.
Twitter announced that it had suspended five accounts connected to the operation while criticizing attempts by governments to “undermine democracy.”
Peace Data also operated thirteen Facebook accounts and two pages, which were created in May and suspended Monday for false identities and another ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior’ bureaucracy, ”the corporation said.
The investigation was initiated on the FBI’s database of its activities outside of Facebook.
Facebook said his research “found links to Americans related to activities beyond the Russian Internet Search Agency,” a St. Petersburg-based company known as the “troll factory,” which U.S. intelligence officials said at the center of Russian efforts to influence 2016.Presidential election.
Moscow has denied the accusations and says it interferes with the domestic politics of other countries.
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