NEW: Anonymous people created fake American social media accounts to pose as journalists, plant letters and impersonate candidates in an apparent effort to promote Iranian interests, according to reports from Facebook and a leading cyber security co.
that identified an Iranian influence operation making use of fake news sites and social media accounts aimed at audiences around the world. The tactics included impersonating Americans of all political stripes.
"Our investigations into these accounts are ongoing. As we continue to investigate potential wider networks and actors, we typically avoid making any declarative public statements until we can be sure that we have reached the end of our analyses. As standard, once we have completed our review, we disclose the full account sets and content to ourFake personas in the network had material published in U.S.
Last year, one of the accounts impersonated Marla Livengood, a Republican candidate for California's 9th Congressional District, using a photograph of Livengood and a campaign banner for its profile and background pictures. Another fake account impersonated Jineea Butler, a Republican candidate for New York's 13th Congressional District, using a photograph of Butler for its profile picture and incorporating her campaign slogans into its background picture, as well as claiming in its Twitter bio to be a"US House candidate, NY-13" and linking to Butler's website, jineeabutlerforcongress.com.
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