Facebook has removed dozens of pages and hundreds of accounts it said were linked to Kremlin disinformation campaigns, Business Insider reports.
Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook's head of security policy, announced in a blog post yesterday that Facebook had uncovered activity that "originated in Russia and focused primarily on Syria and Ukraine."
A few weeks ago, Facebook claimed to have uncovered another cluster of operations traced to official Russian sources, including a news organization called "Peace Data" that allegedly targeted US progressives and recruited left-wing freelance writers, offering them $200 per news article.
Facebook is now also warning about Russian influence campaigns during the 2020 presidential election, with Gleicher noting that: "We've seen deceptive campaigns target journalists and public figures in the past, including as part of hack-and-leak operations."