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    Facebook, Twitter Remove More Russian-Backed Fake Accounts Ahead Of Election

    The social media companies said the accounts and pages were linked to Russian actors that had launched "hack-and-leak" operations to hurt Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
    by Shannon Bond Sep 24, 2020 2 minutes
    A screenshot of an Instagram post Facebook linked to Russia's Internet Research Agency. United World International was a phony website created by the Russian operation and promoted on social media.

    Facebook and Twitter said on Thursday they had removed several hundred fake accounts linked to Russian military intelligence and other Kremlin-backed actors involved in previous efforts to interfere in U.S. politics, including the 2016 presidential election.

    Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook's head of security policy, said in a that the operations did not

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