Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc said on Monday they had dismantled a state-backed i...
- Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc said on Monday they had dismantled a state-backed information operation originating in mainland China that sought to undermine protests in Hong Kong.
** Jan. 31 - 783 pages, groups and accounts engaged in “coordinated inauthentic behavior tied to Iran.” 234 accounts, pages and groups on Facebook and Instagram operating as part of a domestic network in Indonesia. ** March 26 - 2,632 pages, groups and accounts engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram. The operations identified were connected to Iran, Russia, Macedonia and Kosovo.
** May 6 - 97 Facebook accounts, pages and groups involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior as part of a network emanating from Russia that focused on Ukraine. ** July 25 - Four unconnected operations that originated in Thailand, Russia, Ukraine and Honduras. “We didn’t find any links between the campaigns we’ve removed, but all created networks of accounts to mislead others about who they were and what they were doing.”
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