Facebook removes hundreds of pages linked to Russia

Social networking site, Facebook said on Thursday that it removed hundreds of Russia-linked pages, groups and accounts which were part of two big disinformation operations targeting users outside the U.S.

The Facebook said, its latest effort to fight misinformation came after it found two networks that engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and its Instagram service.

According to Facebook, the people running the



accounts represented themselves as independent news sources and posted on topics like anti-NATO sentiment and protest movements.

Facebook's head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, said,  one network of 364 pages and accounts was linked to employees of Sputnik, a Russian state-run English-language news site. Meanwhile, Sputnik criticized Facebook's takedown.