The social media giant claims a Russian influence operation was underway to target left-wing voters in the US and UK.
Facebook said the operation, which partly focused on US politics and racial tensions in the run-up to the 3 November presidential election, centred around a pseudo media organisation called Peace Data.
Twitter said it had also suspended five accounts as part of the operation which it could “reliably attribute to Russian state actors.” Investigators at social media analytics firm Graphika studied the operation and said Peace Data predominately targeted progressive and left-wing groups in the United States and Britain, but also posted about events in other countries including Algeria and Egypt.
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