Facebook blocked personal accounts of Roger Stone as well as fake accounts that were linked to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
Facebook on Wednesday said that the company took down accounts of Roger Stone as well as duplicate and fake accounts that linked to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
In a report on AFP News, Facebook said that personal Instagram and Facebook accounts of Roger Stone, who was a longtime ally of United States President Donald Trump, were among those accounts that were removed in a crackdown on “inauthentic coordinated behavior” in different parts of the world.
Nathaniel Gleicher, the head of security policy at Facebook, said that the Stone network was “uncovered” with the help of information discovered by the investigation of Robert Mueller.
According to Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook wanted to make sure that those assets couldn’t be reactivated and couldn’t be used in the upcoming election.
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Aside from Stone’s personal accounts, the company separately eyed duplicate and fake accounts that were linked to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro as well as networks in Ecuador, Ukraine, and Canada which concealed their true origins.
As per the report, the company interrupted a misleading campaign in Brazil which linked to the Social Liberal Party as well as to the employees of the offices of Bolsonaro and his allies.
Moreover, Facebook determined that the network in Brazil relied on fake identity posing as reporters pretending as media outlets.
As per the report, the company said that fake accounts in Brazil posted on the platform about political memes, elections, journalists, political opposition, and the pandemic.
According to a certain post by researchers, the Digital Forensics Research Lab at Atlantic Council found “duplicate” and “fake” accounts that promoted Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his allies in different Facebook groups and also pages with a lot of followers that published “pro-Bolsonaro memes” and other content disparaging Bolsonaro’s critics.
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