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Casey Michel 🇰🇿 @cjcmichel
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Meanwhile, Facebook just took down more fake pages than ever before designed to “disrupt the midterm elections”—some of which were based out of Iran (and Russia). nytimes.com/2018/08/21/tec…
Facebook announcement:

-No coordination found between Iranian and Russian ops
-Iranian ops targeted audiences across the globe, not just the U.S.
-Iranian ops tied directly to Iranian @PressTV propaganda outlet

newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/08/m…
Facebook also says the fake Russian pages removed “focused on politics in Syria and Ukraine,” pushed “pro-Assad content.” newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/08/m…
FireEye report found the fake Iranian FB campaign pushed anti-Saudi, anti-Israel, pro-Palestine, pro-JCPOA, pro-Bernie Sanders(?) messaging: fireeye.com/blog/threat-re…
One of the presumed fake Iranian sites: “BritishLeft dot com”
Twitter’s also shutting down fake Iranian accounts:
One of the writers for one of the fake Iranian "news" sites that FB/Twitter suspended: Caitlin Johnstone.
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