Technology Print edition: 2019-12-22

Twitter, Facebook target state-linked accounts made to manipulate

Published December 22, 2019 Updated December 21, 2019 10:53pm

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By BR Web Desk Recorder Report

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Twitter said it had blocked some 88,000 accounts linked to Saudi state-backed "information operations", in violation of its manipulation rules.

Separately, Facebook said it had blocked a network in Vietnam and the United States which posted pro-Trump messages aimed at US citizens, along with another network targeting domestic audiences in the country of Georgia.

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