Facebook deletes hundreds of Russian pages and accounts

Facebook continues to work on avoiding Russia's influences on the social network. So they have announced that hundreds of Russian accounts and pages have been removed. These accounts that the company has removed were aimed at influencing the Baltic countries. There were also others seeking to have influence in the Caucasus and Central and Eastern Europe. An important advance for the social network.

Facebook deletes hundreds of Russian pages and accounts

As revealed by the social network itself, of these pages and accounts there were 89 pages and 75 accounts that published news or topics of general interest about various countries such as Romania, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Russia and Kyrgyzstan..

Facebook deletes Russian accounts

In addition, Facebook has revealed that there were some 790, 000 accounts that were followers of any of these pages, almost always followed more than one. So they were all fake accounts, designed to expand the content of these pages. It seems that there were also some associated Instagram accounts, although no information has been provided about this at the moment.

All of these pages presented themselves as independent or general interest news pages. Although the social network has been able to detect that they were linked to Sputnik, a news agency based in Moscow. So there are possibly even links to the government.

These pages also spent about 135, 000 euros on advertising on Facebook. In this way they could expand their messages to a greater number of users on the social network. Another campaign of the same pages was carried out in Ukraine, where 26 pages, 77 groups and 4 accounts have been removed, in addition to 41 Instagram accounts.

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