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In total, 27 accounts, 37 pages and 21 groups were closed on the Facebook social network, as well as 13 Instagram accounts related to the European Solidarity party and the public body of the Law of Communities.
In December 2020, the social network Facebook closed dozens of profiles associated with people related to the party of the fifth president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko “European Solidarity” and the public organization “For the right of communities”. Its removal was reported on Facebook on January 11.
The closure of Facebook profiles was attributed to “coordinated inauthentic behavior”. The social network interprets it as “a coordinated effort to manipulate the public debate for a strategic objective, where fake accounts play a central role.”
“The people behind this activity used fake accounts to create fictitious faces to escape our control, moderating pages and posting in groups named by cities in Ukraine. They also shared content from the official pages of political and political parties, and liked and commented on other people’s posts to make them appear more popular than they actually are, ”says an expanded Facebook report.
The messages supported the activities of the political party “European Solidarity” and its president, the fifth president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, the NGO “Right of Communities” and at the same time criticized President Volodymyr Zelensky. Some of these materials were found to be false by local fact-checking services, Facebook noted.
The report adds that although the organizers of the network tried to hide their personal data, Facebook’s investigation revealed their links with people associated with the “European Solidarity” party and the NGO “Law of the Communities.”
In total, 27 accounts, 37 pages and 21 Facebook groups were closed, as well as 13 Instagram accounts. About 77 thousand accounts followed one or more of these pages, around 16.5 thousand accounts joined at least one of these groups, and around 7.4 thousand people subscribed to one or more of these Instagram accounts. … Facebook and Instagram advertising costs were about $ 300.
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