Meta detected the troll farm a month after Russia's invasion of Ukraine began.
began, which targeted users on multiple platforms including Twitter and LinkedIn in addition to Facebook and Instagram.
Meta global threat intelligence lead Ben Nimmo said in a press call that Cyber Front Z "ran a Telegram channel that told people basically to leave pro-Russian comments on social media posts by public figures, journalists, politicians, celebrities, like Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman," perCyber Front Z was banned from Meta's platforms in April and the company shut down 45 Facebook accounts and 1,037 Instagram accounts associated with the group, per the report.
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