Facebook Removes Chinese Accounts Posting About Foreign Policy, 2020 Election


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Facebook says it has taken down a network of China-based fake accounts whose posts included content about the U.S. presidential election. Most of the activity by the more than 180 fake accounts, groups and pages was focused on Southeast Asia, Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook's head of security policy, said in a blog post Tuesday. The network posted in Chinese, Filipino and English about global news and events, including naval activity in the South China Sea, protests in Hong Kong and President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines. There was also a modest effort in the U.S., where the accounts "posted content both...