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ALERT ALERT ALERT – TOTALLY REAL NEWS!
Hot off the heels of yesterday’s report by Microsoft that something something something Russian hackers, we have a new Facebook report that something something something Russian AND Iranian hackers.

So is Iran hacking to reelect Obama in the 2018 elections so they can get their nuke deal back

Let’s find out from this truthful and accurate bastion of the rights of the First Amendment!

Washington Post:

Iran was behind a sprawling disinformation operation on Facebook that targeted hundreds of thousands of people around the world, the social media company said Tuesday night, underscoring Silicon Valley’s increasingly global war on disinformation.

SPRAWLING!

LIKE A CAT!



HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE SPRAWLED OVER!

The Iranian effort dated to 2011 and had ties to state media operations in that country, Facebook said, involving hundreds of accounts on both Facebook and its sister site, Instagram. It also spread to Twitter and YouTube, which both companies said they also removed. The fake Iranian accounts bought ads on Facebook and used it to organize events.

Facebook also deleted some unrelated fake accounts originating in Russia, which which has been the main focus of reporting on disinformation operations targeting the United States. Tuesday night’s revelations were unusual because the disinformation targeted people in many countries — the Middle East, Latin America, the U.K. and the U.S., Facebook said — and involved a nation-state actor other than Russia.

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