Iranian Propaganda Targeted Americans With Tom Hanks
It’s yet another attempt by a government to use Facebook to sow discord in the United States.
by Alexis C. Madrigal
Oct 26, 2018
3 minutes
Facebook announced its latest takedown of what the company calls “coordinated inauthentic activity”—and this time, the propaganda network didn’t originate in Russia à la the 2016 election, but in Iran.
About a million people followed one of 82 suspicious pages, groups, and accounts on Facebook or Instagram. One of the largest, “No racism no war,” had more than 400,000 page likes before Facebook took it down, according to tracking by CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned
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