The moment when Facebook’s removal of alleged Russian disinformation became a free-speech issue

Left-leaning political activists accused Facebook of suppressing free speech when the social media giant removed an event listing this week that it said was part of a new disinformation campaign with ties to Russia.

Left-leaning political activists accused Facebook of suppressing free speech when the social media giant removed an event listing this week that it said was part of a new disinformation campaign with ties to Russia.

Facebook said it had to act quickly to disclose that inauthentic operators were behind an upcoming event in Washington to counter a white-supremacist rally inspired by the deadly demonstration in Charlottesville last year. “Resisters,” the page that created the event, was among the 32 pages and accounts Facebook removed Tuesday.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/08/02/moment-when-facebooks-removal-alleged-russian-disinformation-became-free-speech-issue/

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Facebook bans pages aimed at US election interference
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Facebook Identifies an Active Political Influence Campaign Using Fake Accounts
Facebook said on Tuesday that it had identified a political influence campaign that was potentially built to disrupt the midterm elections, with the company detecting and removing 32 pages and fake accounts that had engaged in activity around divisive social issues.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/us/politics/facebook-political-campaign-midterms.html

Facebook Removes 17 Profiles Involved in Political Meddling
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