Facebook uncovered more coordinated inauthentic behavior in Russia and took action against two separate operations originating in that country.
Head of cybersecurity policy Nathaniel Gleicher said in a Newsroom post that both operations created networks of accounts to mislead people about who they were and what they were doing.
The first operation consisted of 62 accounts, 10 pages and 25 groups, all on Facebook, originating in Russia but focusing their coordinated inauthentic behavior on Ukraine.
Gleicher said fake accounts were used to run pages and groups, disseminate their content, boost engagement and drive traffic to an off-Facebook domain, with the content on local and political topics including the military conflict in eastern Ukraine, Russian politics, political news in Europe, politics in Ukraine and the Syrian civil war.
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