Russia’s Internet Research Agency has not been completely eliminated on Facebook, but the social network announced some progress in its efforts against the entity that sought to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos revealed in a Newsroom post that the social network removed 70 accounts, 138 pages and 65 Instagram accounts that were controlled by the IRA.
Roughly 1.08 million people followed at least one of the pages, and about 493,000 followed at least one of the Instagram accounts.
According to Stamos, 95 percent of the pages that had content were in Russian and aimed at people living in that country or Russian speakers around the world, including in neighboring countries such as Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.
The social network shared examples of Facebook posts and ads and Instagram posts from the affected accounts:
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