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Facebook closes hundreds of ‘inauthentic’ Russia-linked pages

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Facebook closes hundreds of 'inauthentic' Russia-linked pagesThe California-based social media giant said they were part of two separate but similar Russian-based influence operations, one that was active in a variety of former Soviet republics and another focused specifically on Ukraine. “We didn’t find any links between these operations, but they used similar tactics by creating networks of accounts to mislead others about who they were and what they were doing,” Nathaniel Gleicher, the head of Facebook’s cybersecurity policy, said in a post.