289 pages allegedly connected to the Kremlin Sputnik news
website has been taken down by social giant Facebook for reportedly
breaching the rules.
The pages, which have been rumoured to be
directed at individuals in former Soviet satellite states, and appealed
to a certain sect of people based on their regions, or taste were found
to be linked to Sputnik employees.
The pages also posted anti-Nato driven sentiments according to Facebook’s Head of cybersecurity, Nathaniel Gleicher.
With a cumulative 790,000 followers, it had the potential to largely influence opinions of the individuals on the network.
Facebook
has obviously notched up their efforts at removing pages that engage in
‘coordinated inauthentic behaviour’ considering all the data breaches
that plagued the company almost all of 2018. Facebook has also taken
down some pages associated with the Iranian State as well in previous
times