Facebook and Twitter remove fake accounts linked to Russia and Iran
24 August 2018 |
5:48 am
Facebook Inc. for the first time named a country other than Russia that has been using fake accounts to manipulate global politics: Iran. Bloomberg's Jordan Robertson reports on "Bloomberg Technology."
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