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OK, here's where it gets interesting with the latest takedown of FB accounts.

Main question was whether they were the Russian troll farm.

Left, troll farm a/c "Native Americans United." Right, Aztlan Warriors.

(H/t @UsHadrons for the spot. See medium.com/@ushadrons/thi…)
And another one.

Left, troll farm account "feminism_tag". Right, the Resisterz page, taken down this week.

(See medium.com/@ushadrons/thi…)
And yet another.

Left, the troll farm's best-performing FB account, Black Matters.

Right, the Ancestral Wisdom page, taken down this week.

(See medium.com/@ushadrons/thi…)
So, that's three of the accounts in the latest takedown which posted exactly the same memes as three different Russian troll-farm accounts.

Still not conclusive that these latest ones were run by the troll farm, but it's certainly suggestive.
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Thread, in the interest of there being a clear record:

Sputnik has made a number of false statements about me.

This matters, because facts still matter.

Evidence follows. Will a retraction follow too?

cc @SputnikInt
1. Sputnik said I have "no discernible history" in political journalism.

In fact, I was EU and NATO correspondent for @dpa_intl. That fact is discernible, because it's in my Atlantic Council bio.

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More: Sputnik +quoted+ my bio in the same article, and provided the link.

Looks like @SputnikInt either:

a) didn't read it;
b) didn't understand it;
or
c) chose to suppress a material fact.
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Ha, looks like I really pissed off the Kremlin "information weapon" (to quote its own editor-in-chief).

They hate it when someone reveals how they work by citing actual evidence.
Looks like this is what triggered them. @thetimes on the role of Sputnik's parent company, which is to "secure the interests of the Russian Federation in the information sphere."

Sputnik claims that doesn't apply to them. Seriously.

H/t @macca808

thetimes.co.uk/article/edinbu…
Source for that quote? The founding charter of the Rossiya Segodnya agency, which is Sputnik's parent.

Evidence here: medium.com/dfrlab/putinat…
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Aaaand it's takedown time in #Bangladesh too.

@Twitter and @Facebook both just announced takedowns of a small number of inauthentic assets, possibly tied to state actors.

Some initial analysis with the great @karankanishk here, for @DFRLab:

medium.com/@DFRLab/electi…
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15 accounts so far, low follower numbers, engaged in coordinated platform manipulation.

And here's @fbnewsroom: six accounts, nine pages. Taken down for coordinated inauthentic behaviour, i.e. a network of counterfeit accounts.

"Linked to individuals associated with the #Bangladesh government."

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