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Last modified on Fri 11 Jun 2021 06.01 EDT A digital marketing firm closely linked to the pro-Trump youth group Turning Point USA was responsible for a series of deceptive Facebook ads promoting Green party candidates during the 2018 US midterm elections, the Guardian can reveal. In an apparent attempt to split the Democratic vote in a number of close races, the ads purported to come from an organization called America Progress Now (APN) and used socialist memes and rhetoric to urge leftwing voters to support Green party candidates. Facebook was aware of the true identity of the advertiser �...

Russia and Iran were the top sources of influence operations on Facebook, the company said in a threat ...

Russia is the king of disinformation on Facebook, the company says CNN 39 mins ago © Shutterstock Russia and Iran are the top two sources of coordinated fake activity on Facebook, according to a new report released by the company. Facebook's report, published Wednesday, shows how foreign and domestic covert influence operators have shifted their tactics and grown more sophisticated in response to efforts by social media companies to crack down on fake accounts and influence operations. Facebook has removed more than 150 networks of coordinated fake activity since 2017, the report said. T...

A Facebook report released Wednesday says that Russia is still the largest producer of disinformation, a notable finding just five years after Russian operatives launched a far-reaching campaign to infiltrate social media during the 2016 election.

The U.S. topped a list of the countries most frequently targeted by deceptive foreign influence operations using Facebook between 2017 and 2020, the report on Wednesday said.