Facebook closes disinformation accounts linked to French military

The networks 'used fake accounts as a central part of their operations to mislead people about who they are and what they are doing, and that was the basis for our action', Facebook said. — AFP

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook said on Dec 15 that it had removed two networks based in Russia and one linked to the French military, accusing them of carrying out interference campaigns in Africa.

Two networks running multiple Facebook accounts were assigned to people associated with the Russian Internet Research Agency, and the third had “links to individuals associated with French military”, the social media platform said.