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By Craig Timberg, Elizabeth Dwoskin & Tony Romm @ WashingtonPost.com, August 21 at 7:47 PM
Facebook has taken down more than 600 phony pages, groups and accounts that were part of separate disinformation campaigns — organized by Russia and Iran — targeting people worldwide, the company announced Tuesday night.
The revelation is unusual for targeting people in many countries and for involving a nation-state actor other than Russia, which has been the main focus of reporting on disinformation operations targeting the United States. The discovery was made by cybersecurity firm FireEye, Facebook said.
“These were distinct campaigns and we have not identified any link or coordination between them,” Facebook said in a blog post. “However, they used similar tactics by creating networks of accounts to mislead others about who they were and what they were doing.”
Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, said [....]
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Axios.com's summary of the same story, posted 43 mins. ago, using the NYTimes' report rather than WaPo's report.
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 8:14pm