Facebook deleted suspicious Russian accounts
The social network Facebook has announced the removal of hundreds of Russian accounts and pages, which, according to the company, are related to the "trolley factory".
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Representatives Facebook reported that the source of many deleted articles and pages is the Russian Federal News Agency (FAN), writes "Voice of America".
The social network security service came to the conclusion that informantstvo was technologically and structurally connected with the St. Petersburg “Internet Research Agency”, which is known as the “troll factory”.
Head Facebook Mark Zuckerberg stated that FAN "has repeatedly deceived and manipulated people all over the world."
"We do not want them to be present in Facebook"He added.
The company reported that deleted accounts and pages were mostly Russian-speaking, and many of them practically did not import political ideas.
Ранее Facebook focused on closing fake accounts and accounts spreading fake news.
On the Facebook site states that 70 accounts have been deleted in Facebook and 65 in Instagramas well as 138 pages in Facebook, which were controlled by the Russian Internet Research Agency. 95% of the content of deleted pages was in Russian, it was mainly focused on people living in Russia, as well as on Russian-speaking people around the world.
Photos: Facebook
Here are examples of the content contained on these pages.
Photos: Facebook
Photos: Facebook
The largest social network in the world was under the onslaught of demands to improve their work with the data after it became known that information about approximately 50 millions of users Facebook was in the hands of a consulting firm Cambridge Analyticawho worked for the campaign headquarters of Donald Trump.
Details about this story ForumDaily wrote in the material "As a scientist from Russia, I stole data from Facebook users for a company that advises Trump. ”.
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