Who created fake Twitter, Facebook accounts boosting Iran?

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NEW: Anonymous people created fake American social media accounts to pose as journalists, plant letters and impersonate candidates in an apparent effort to promote Iranian interests, according to reports from Facebook and a leading cyber security co.

that identified an Iranian influence operation making use of fake news sites and social media accounts aimed at audiences around the world. The tactics included impersonating Americans of all political stripes.

"Our investigations into these accounts are ongoing. As we continue to investigate potential wider networks and actors, we typically avoid making any declarative public statements until we can be sure that we have reached the end of our analyses. As standard, once we have completed our review, we disclose the full account sets and content to ourFake personas in the network had material published in U.S.

Last year, one of the accounts impersonated Marla Livengood, a Republican candidate for California's 9th Congressional District, using a photograph of Livengood and a campaign banner for its profile and background pictures. Another fake account impersonated Jineea Butler, a Republican candidate for New York's 13th Congressional District, using a photograph of Butler for its profile picture and incorporating her campaign slogans into its background picture, as well as claiming in its Twitter bio to be a"US House candidate, NY-13" and linking to Butler's website, jineeabutlerforcongress.com.

 

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What's the difference between US and countries like Iran and China? US has privatized censorship.

Why would we believe FB? Facebook helped trump get elected.

MSNBC Probably Bolton & Potus45

CheriJacobus Smells like a FARA violation!

You never know what some people are capable of stooping to

MSNBC So I Guess they nearing to blame Trump And ADOS (African American descendant of slaves ) for that too...

Did SenFeinstein know or aid the Iranians

Trump administration

The biggest problem with Iran is the nut job in the White House.

HassanRouhani at a time when we're trying to eliminate these Atomic weapons from the world's Arsenal we need to be negotiating and doing just that and that includes with the Russia and China and the United States. Rouhani please get to the negotiating table

You hire fake journalists and pass off leftists lies as truth. is part of the problem.

Based on a tip from FireEye, Facebook says it removed 51 Facebook accounts, 36 Pages, seven Groups and three Instagram accounts involved in what it called 'coordinated inauthentic behavior that originated in Iran.'

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