According to reports reaching Oyogist.com, Popular Messaging platform, Facebook has said it removed two Facebook accounts linking to the Russia and French military.
Facebook said the reason for this was that these accounts tried to interfere with campaigns in Africa.
The social media platform said these accounts had “links to individuals associated with French military,”.
Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of security policy, and David Agranovich, head of global threat disruption, said in a blog that the campaigns dueled with each other online.
“This was the first time our team found two campaigns — from France and Russia — actively engage with one another, including by befriending, commenting and criticising the opposing side for being fake,” they said.
The networks “used fake accounts as a central part of their operations to mislead people about who they are and what they are doing, and that was the basis for our action,” Facebook said.
