Social media company Facebook said it took down two large-scale disinformation operations Thursday linked to Russian state actors and operating across Eastern and Central Europe.
The largest network was linked to Russian state news agency Sputnik, the tech giant said. The Russian media organization coordinated a total of 289 pages and 75 accounts on the platform, followed by around 790,000 Facebook users.
“These pages were all designed to make themselves look like independent news pages, but based on our analysis these pages were in fact linked to Sputnik,” said Nathaniel Gleicher, head of cybersecurity policy at Facebook.
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Source: European Voice
