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Facebook Removes Chinese Accounts Posting About Foreign Policy, 2020 Election

Most of the operation's activity focused on Chinese interests in the South China Sea but also included some content about U.S. politics.
Facebook says the fake accounts it removed focused mainly on Southeast Asia. But they also included some content about the U.S. election, which did not gain a large following.

Facebook says it has taken down a network of China-based fake accounts whose posts included content about the U.S. presidential election.

Most of the activity by the more than 180 fake accounts, groups and pages was focused on Southeast Asia, Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook's head of security policy, said in a blog post Tuesday.

The network posted in Chinese, Filipino and

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