A 3D-printed Facebook like button is seen in front of a displayed Russian flag in this illustration taken October 25, 2017. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration - RC1BB6A8CF30
Facebook Inc will show people which Russian propaganda pages or accounts they’ve followed and liked on the social network, responding to a request from Congress to address manipulation and meddling during the 2016 presidential election.
The tool will appear by the end of the year in Facebook’s online support centre, the company said in a blog post Wednesday. It will answer the user question, “How can I see if I’ve liked or followed a Facebook page or Instagram account created by the Internet Research Agency?” That’s the Russian firm that created thousands of incendiary posts from fake accounts posing as US citizens. People will see a list of the accounts they followed, if any, from January 2015 through August 2017.
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