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Washington Post
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The reverberations from indictments this week over Russian influence buying continue to spread. Will Shanklin / Engadget : YouTube terminates five right-wing channels linked to the DOJ's Russia indict...
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Bloomberg
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Meta removes ~63K Instagram accounts used by sextortion scammers in Nigeria, along with ~7,200 Facebook accounts, Pages, and Groups linked to the Yahoo Boys
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New York Times
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Analysis finds ~9K Instagram accounts are pretending to be the 10 most followed people on Instagram, highlighting a problem celebrities and social networks face
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New York Times
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TechCrunch
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