Facebook said it had shut down more than 150 fake accounts it determined were run from China, including accounts posting about November's US presidential election
Facebook said the scale of the operation was small, but it is the first time the company has made public details about an operation it found to be run from China that had been posting about the US election. The accounts"posted content both in support of and against presidential candidates Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden and Donald Trump," Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook's head of security policy, wrote in a post on the company's website.
Gleicher told reporters Tuesday that given the nature of the company's findings"we thought that it was important that people should be aware of what we are seeing." Graphika said the operation exposed Tuesday began in late 2016 by posting about Taiwan. By 2018, it was posting about the Philippines and argued in favor of Chinese influence in the region. Also in 2018, the operation created a collection of pages that posted in defense of China's actions in the South China Sea.
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