A number of Romanian Facebook pages and Instagram accounts pretending to be American in a bid to influence the U.S. election have been removed, the company said Thursday.
It removed 35 Facebook accounts, three Facebook pages and 88 accounts on photo-sharing app Instagram, which it owns.
“The people behind this network used fake accounts — some of which had already been detected and disabled by our automated systems — to pose as Americans, amplify and comment on their own content, and manage Pages including some posing as President Trump fan Pages,” Facebook said in its monthly report on “inauthentic behavior.”
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A number of Romanian Facebook pages and Instagram accounts pretending to be American in a bid to influence the U.S. election have been removed, the company said Thursday.
It removed 35 Facebook accounts, three Facebook pages and 88 accounts on photo-sharing app Instagram, which it owns.
“The people behind this network used fake accounts — some of which had already been detected and disabled by our automated systems — to pose as Americans, amplify and comment on their own content, and manage Pages including some posing as President Trump fan Pages,” Facebook said in its monthly report on “inauthentic behavior.”
Social media companies like Twitter and Facebook
