Facebook has disposed of a network of fake accounts and Russian pages pointing to Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters with false data about Boris Johnson, Sir Keir Starmer and Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Using elaborate online profiles covering various sites, network members posed as a Romanian-based news organization called Peacedata, which recruited independent journalists to write articles for a left-wing audience.
Facebook said its investigation had uncovered links to the Russian Internet Search Agency (IRA), which in the past was linked to election interference on Facebook in the 2016 US presidential election.
Twitter accounts connected to the IRA have already been accused of influencing the 2016 EU referendum.
CNN reported that the most recent action taken through the social network following an FBI tip.
Data published on the UK claim to have been savage in its attacks on Johnson, calling it “extreme right, plutocratic and racist.”
Facebook got rid of a network of russian-born accounts and fake pages that sought to interfere with UK democracy
The left-wing supporting network of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, photographed in London on 22 August
Sir Keir, Corbyn’s successor as Labour leader, has been described as “more centrist than left-wing and “the new Tony Blair of Labour.”
The network promoted a negative history about Mr. Rees-Mogg while seeking to influence British democracy.
Facebook said thirteen accounts and two pages had been deleted for violating the site’s policy opposed to foreign interference: “un authentic habit coordinated on behalf of a foreign entity.”
Facebook said the network had achieved small success on the platform when it was removed.
“This network in the early stages of building its audience, basically to the left of the political spectrum, and saw virtually no engagement on Facebook before cutting it off,” the social media giant said in its August report on coordinated behavior. not authentic.
“The other people in this network have published data on global news and existing occasions about the left-wing countries and communities they target, adding social and racial justice in the United States and the United Kingdom, NATO and European policy; accusations of Western war crimes and corruption; Environmental disorders The founder of Wikileaks; Tensions between Israel and Palestine; The coronavirus pandemic; Hydraulic fracturing critic; French influence in Africa; Biden-Harris Campaign; QAnon; President Trump and his policies; U.S. military policies in Africa.”
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