NEW: Facebook says Thursday it has removed accounts from 3 different disinformation campaigns, each with at least loose ties to the Kremlin.
Naira Davlashyan / AP fileFacebook said Thursday that it had removed accounts from three disinformation campaigns, each with at least loose ties to the Kremlin.
Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have since suspended the accounts that tried to cultivate followings to point users back to their websites. In each case, the number of accounts and their followers are a fraction of the size of similar campaigns that went viral in the lead-up to the 2016 election, indicating they’re being caught earlier.
“We don’t see specific evidence of an impending hack and leak, but hack and leak is an important risk we should be watching for in the weeks to come. These operations could pivot at any time,” Gleicher said.Facebook said that one campaign, centered around a fake Turkish think tank, was linked to people who had been tied to the Internet Research Agency, or IRA, the Russian “troll factory” funded by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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