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NEW: Here's what the fake Russian Instagram accounts pulled down yesterday looked like. thinkprogress.org/here-are-some-…
1. The fake Russian accounts spanned the political gamut—and targeted fans of people like the Kardashians, Stephen Colbert, Jordan Peterson, and Tomi Lahren. thinkprogress.org/here-are-some-…
2. The fake accounts were all publicly listed on a new site @thinkprogress broke yesterday, which was created by one of the Internet Research Agency-related companies mentioned in Robert Mueller's February indictment. thinkprogress.org/usaira-russian…
3. These fake Russian accounts have been live since at least **November 2017.** And Facebook only pulled all of them down ... yesterday evening. thinkprogress.org/here-are-some-…
4. A trio of these fake accounts managed to gain huge followings on Instagram—with the most popular one dedicated to John Oliver. (Who somehow beat out Rihanna and Kendrick Lamar.) thinkprogress.org/here-are-some-…
5. Easily the best account taken down: "Things I Hate," which was devoted to "People problems" and asked followers to "get this goin'." (It then proceeded to never post anything.) thinkprogress.org/here-are-some-…
Increased coordination can be good! But c'mon: some of these fake accounts that were taken down late last night were up for A WHOLE YEAR (AT LEAST).

There's absolutely zero reason for Facebook to be back-slapping itself for this. thinkprogress.org/here-are-some-…
“Instagram right now is completely overrun with hate speech and propaganda memes. It's possibly the worst I've ever seen" thehill.com/policy/technol…
ICYMI
BBC has some more images from these fake Russian Instagram accounts taken down on Monday/Tuesday, aimed at those on both left and right: bbc.com/russian/featur…
Facebook now admits that hundreds of thousands of Americans were following these fake Instagram accounts pulled down last week: newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/11/l…
So that anti-disinformation “war room” that Facebook promoted so heavily two months ago is... now dead. bloomberg.com/amp/news/artic…
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2. The arrest came a week after Putin said Moscow wouldn't retaliate for Maria Butina.
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Not next.

Instagram always was, and is their main tool.

as in:

It's the platform they get the most interactions with.

People just don't understand that because facebook has hidden it.
From the initial facebook admission that russians had been operating on facebook and IG.
out of 470 Facebook accounts we only learned the names of around 41 pages, none of those directory from facebook, all second hand.
From that same "era" of russian accounts.
I have collected a mear 57 of the 180 or more Instagram account names.
again all second hand.

until they tell us what happened, who can really say what platform the russians prefer? my guess is IG. but hell, i don't even know for sure.
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