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Facebook social networking has announced that it has removed a fake account network that uses fake identities to campaign for posting articles supporting US President Donald Trump on Instagram and Instagram.
"This network is one of two that has been suspended because of participation in foreign and government interference and seeking to mislead others," Agence France-Presse quoted Facebook security official in Facebook Nathaniel Gletcher as saying in a statement posted on the Internet. Activity in coordination with some of them and used fake accounts. ”
Gletcher pointed out that one of the campaigns pursued by Facebook connected to the US-based Epoque media group and its association with Falun Gong sect and to a site called "BL" was revealed, indicating that the network that is centered around the BL Group repeatedly violated a number of our policies against Unreliable coordinated behavior, spam and misleading, and the group has been banned on Facebook.
In this framework, Facebook removed 601 accounts, 89 pages, 156 groups and 72 Instagram accounts created in the United States and Vietnam, and some of them used identification images made using artificial intelligence, allegedly, for people from the United States, according to the social network.
Gletcher pointed out that these accounts usually publish amused content and news about US policy issues including the Trump trial, conservative ideology, political candidates, elections, trade and family values, explaining that the content models that have been presented are all pro-Trump and promote.
According to Facebook, 55 million accounts belonging to one or more pages managed by this network spent less than $ 9.5 million of ads on Facebook and Instagram combined, while Gletcher indicated that Georgia was the source of the second network of accounts that were removed on Facebook and Instagram and targeted people there.
"Although the people behind this activity have tried to hide their identities and coordinate with each other, our investigation has linked this activity to Panda Advertising in Georgia and the government led by the Georgian Dream Party," said Gletcher.
39 accounts, 344 pages, 13 groups on Facebook, and 22 Instagram accounts have collected more than 440,000 followers overall, after they were linked to the Georgia campaign.