Facebook takes down Russian operation targeting voters in US
The influence operation — which partly focused on US politics and racial tensions — centred on a fake media organisation
01 September 2020 - 22:46
London — A Russian influence operation posed as an independent news outlet to target left-wing voters in the US and Britain, including by recruiting freelance journalists to write about domestic politics, Facebook said on Tuesday.
Facebook said the operation — which partly focused on US politics and racial tensions in the run-up to the November 3 presidential election — centred on a fake media organisation called Peace Data...
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