Security News > 2020 > September > Facebook Nabs Russia-Linked Campaign to Fuel US Chaos
Facebook on Tuesday said that it caught a budding Russia-linked campaign to fuel political chaos in the US, working off a tip from the FBI in its latest take-down of coordinated inauthentic behavior at the leading social network.
The network of 13 Facebook accounts and two pages posing as journalists and targeting left-wing progressives was removed for violating a policy against "Foreign interference" at the platform.
The network was in the early stages of building an audience, with little engagement from users, Facebook said.
The Facebook pages were said to be crafted to drive viewers to websites of the social network, and their operators were working diligently to get approval to run targeted ads.
A consistent target of the network was left-leaning voters in Britain and the US with the potential to be dissuaded from supporting centrist leadership of the Democratic and Labour parties, Graphika determined.