While the accounts weren’t primarily targeting the United States, there are concerns that November’s U.S. Accounts like these could be used in Russian influence operations as the presidential election approaches.
Glissher said Facebook did not see specific evidence of the so-called “hack and leak” operation, but said “we think, and I think a lot of experts think, in reality this is one of the threats we should be prepared for.”
Facebook said the accounts it has closed focus primarily on “the Far East, Russia’s neighbors and Syria.”
He frequently posted news and current events, including the Syrian Civil War, Turkish local politics, Asia-Pacific geopolitical issues, NATO, the Ukraine war, and politics in the Baltics, Georgia, Armenia, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus. Is., And the U.S., ”Facebook said.
Twitter also said it has closed related accounts on its platform that it is “reliably grateful to units affiliated with the state” in Russia, a Twitter spokesman told CNN on Thursday.
Facebook said it had evidence that the group introduced contact with news organizations as journalists – something, Glissher said, that American journalists should keep in mind in the final weeks of the election campaign.
Facebook also said it had closed accounts linked to people associated with the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a notorious Russian troll group that tried to interfere in the 2016 election using social media.
Facebook identified a website that linked it to closing pages, describing itself as an “independent analytics hub”, but linked to a troll operation.
The company said Facebook made the identification with the help of the FBI.
Russia has repeatedly denied using social media to interfere in the 2016 elections.
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