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Facebook on Tuesday said it had shut down more than 150 fake accounts it determined were run from China that including accounts posting about November’s US presidential election. The accounts “posted content both in support of and against presidential candidates Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden and Donald Trump,†Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of security policy wrote in a post on the company’s website. Graphika, a social media analytics company commissioned by Facebook to study the network of accounts, wrote in its report Tuesday, “In 2019-2020, the operation began running accounts that posed as Americans and posted a small amount of content...
