Thread by @benimmo

BREAKING: @Facebook just took down four networks for coordinated inauthentic behavior. Attributions include:

- "some of the employees of the offices of (...) Eduardo Bolsonaro, Flavio Bolsonaro and Jair Bolsonaro";

- "Roger Stone and his associates."

about.fb.com/news/2020/07/r…

Other attributions:

- "Postmen DA, an advertising agency in Ukraine";

- "political consultants and former government employees in Ecuador and Estraterra, a Canada-based PR firm".

PR companies have featured in a fair few takedowns recently.

Different countries, languages and contexts, but a common denominator of coordinated inauthentic behaviour.

Some ideas do get around, don't they?

Also worth noting that most of this activity was aimed at domestic audiences. Disinfo starts at home, guys.

On the U.S. front, here's the Graphika report on the Stone takedown.

graphika.com/reports/facebo…

On the Ukrainian PR agency, which was mostly posting about domestic politics, especially last year's elections, there's this.

graphika.com/reports/postme…

On the Brazilian takedown - full attribution "individuals associated with the Social Liberal Party and some of the employees of the offices of Anderson Moraes, Alana Passos, Eduardo Bolsonaro, Flavio Bolsonaro and Jair Bolsonaro" - here's @DFRLab.

medium.com/dfrlab/faceboo…

And again h/t the @DFRLab team, here's an analysis of the Estraterra takedown, "an Ecuadorian public relations firm operated out of Canada."

medium.com/dfrlab/faceboo…