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Facebook just took down 364 pages and accounts for coordinated inauthentic behaviour in the former USSR, run by Sputnik employees.
newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/01/r…
“Google has cut off USA Really, a sanctioned Russian propaganda website, from using popular tools that allowed it to track and collect extensive data on the site’s readers. apple.news/ARX7G-Po2RXCDZ…
Russia is backing a viral video company aimed at American millennials, Maffick Media, a company whose majority stakeholder is Ruptly, a subsidiary of RT, which is funded by the Russian government. cnn.com/2019/02/15/tec…
"Soapbox, which focuses on current affairs, Waste-Ed, an environmental channel, and Backthen, a history channel whose focus includes what it views as western imperialism. Together, the three pagses have more than 30 million video views"
Anissa Naouai, who is Maffick's CEO, "worked as a correspondent for RT beginning in 2006, according to her LinkedIn page. She later hosted In the Now as a nightly show on RT and continued her relationship with the channel even during Russia's intervention in Ukraine"
"According to Sparks, Naouai has been friends for "many many" years with RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan. The 2017 DNI report alleged that Simonyan played a role in Russian President Vladimir Putin's 2012 campaign and has ties to top Russian government officials."
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