Facebook: No Foreign Interference Related to Nationwide Protests

The social network released its Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Report for May 2020

Facebook head of cybersecurity policy Nathaniel Gleicher said Friday that the social network has not discovered foreign interference on its platform related to the demonstrations that have been occurring across the country in reaction to the death of George Floyd.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr said Thursday that foreign groups were using misinformation campaigns to widen divisions in the country’s society, mirroring efforts by Russian entities that influenced the 2016 presidential election, Elizabeth Culliford of Reuters reported.

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