Purged Facebook Page Tied to the Kremlin Spread Anti-Immigrant Bile
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/12/us/politics/russia-facebook-election.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
The notice went out on Facebook last year, calling citizens of
Twin Falls, Idaho, to an urgent meeting about the "huge
upsurge of violence toward American citizens" by Muslim
refugees who had settled there. The inflammatory post,
however, originated not in Idaho but in Russia. The meeting's
sponsor, an anti-immigrant page called "Secured Borders," was
one of hundreds of fake Facebook accounts created by a Russian
company with Kremlin ties to spread vitriolic messages on
divisive issues. Facebook acknowledged last week that it had
closed the accounts after linking them to advertisements
costing $100,000 that were purchased in Russia's influence
campaign during and after the 2016 election. But the company
declined to release or describe in detail the pages and
profiles it had linked to Russia. A report by the Russian
media outlet RBC last March, however, identified the Secured
Borders page as the work of the Internet Research Agency, a
St. Petersburg firm that employs hundreds of so-called trolls
to post material in support of Russian government policies. A
Facebook official confirmed that Secured Borders was removed
in the purge of Russian fakes.
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