Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts linked to a anti-vaccine campaign operated from Russia.
Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts which it says were involved in anti-vax disinformation campaigns operated from Russia.They attempted to recruit influencers to spread false claims to undermine public confidence in particular Covid-19 vaccines, it added.on "coordinated inauthentic behaviour", Facebook said it found links between the network and a botched disinformation campaign from influencer marketing agency Fazze - which is part of a Russian-based company called AdNow.
These posts appeared on Facebook in Hindi around the same time the Indian government was discussing emergency authorisation for the AstraZeneca vaccine. Ben Nimmo, Facebook's threat intelligence lead, described the campaign as "a disinformation laundromat" which planted content on a few online forums and then amplified that content on other platforms.
Both waves of the campaign were unsuccessful and failed to gain much traction - despite the diverse methods used. Despite the best efforts of the campaign, Facebook's report observed sloppy practices, including mixing languages - such as posting Hindi language memes accompanied by hashtags in Portuguese.
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