IRA

Facebook bans networks, three originating in Iran and one in Russia, running “inauthentic” accounts, Pages, and Groups misleading US and Latin American users

many of the accounts claimed to be run from swing states pic.twitter.com/pmpLN7LsEf Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : Accounts with usernames like http://black.queen.chloe and michigan_black_community_ look...

By taking six weeks to ban pages very similar to Twitter accounts publicly linked to IRA, Facebook shows it still struggles to deal with bad actors effectively

Washington Post :

How the Trump campaign increased its Facebook ad purchasing power with provocative content and mastered ad tools like Custom Audiences and Lookalike Audiences

Why Russia's Facebook ads were less important to Trump's victory than his own Facebook ads.  —  IT'S NOT EVERY day that a former … Tweets: @nycsouthpaw , @mollymckew , @maxkennerly , @mikeisaac , @par...

Profile of Yevgeny Prigozhin, alleged IRA owner, who, sources say, first hired internet trolls to bury complaints about food supplied to Moscow schools in 2011

Profile of Yevgeny Prigozhin, alleged IRA owner, who, sources say, first hired internet trolls to bury complaints about food supplied to Moscow schools in 2011

Thomas Grove / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @lennutrajektoor , @timjhanrahan , and @wsj Tweets: @lennutrajektoor : Pay attention to @tggrove write-up on Prigozhin, Putin's personal chef w criminal p...