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Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard's podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet. See More → Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram have taken down a series of accounts that appeared to be running a Russian-language, pro-U.S. influence operation, according to researchers from the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) and Graphika, a private research company. The campaign lasted for almost five years, according to the researchers. Advertisement The tactics used closely mirror those that the Russian government deployed in the United States during the 2016 election; this time, however, the memes, petitions, fake news, AI-altered profile photos, propaganda, and hashtags...
