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Across the four countries, a total of 294 accounts, 1 509 pages and 32 groups were taken down for what the company calls “coordinated inauthentic behaviour.”

“We don’t see a connection between them but they all were using networks of fake accounts to mislead people about who they were and what they were doing,” Nathaniel Gleicher, Head of Cybersecurity Policy, told Reuters in a phone briefing. The accounts removed in Thailand used “fictitious personas” to promote narratives about Thai politics, US-China relations, protests in Hong Kong and criticism of democracy activists in Thailand, Gleicher said.

Accounts and pages from Russia and a region of Ukraine that discussed Ukrainian politics and criticised the Ukrainian government, using fake accounts impersonating journalists or military officers, were taken down ahead of an election in Ukraine last week.

 

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