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Facebook removes over 160 Ukrainian accounts for “inauthentic behavior”

Facebook says it has deleted 168 accounts, 149 pages, and 79 groups based in Ukraine for “coordinated inauthentic behavior,” its head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, said in a September 16 statement.  He emphasized the reason behind the removals was “not the content they posted.” Gleicher said the “people behind this activity coordinated with one another …

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Facebook attempts to block Ukrainian far-right group over “hate speech”

Ukraine’s militaristic, far-right Azov movement and its various branches have used Facebook to promote its antidemocratic, ultranationalist messages and recruit new members since its inception at the start of the country’s war against Russia-backed separatists five years ago. The American social-networking giant has also been an important platform for Azov’s global expansion and attempts to legitimize itself …

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Ukraine warned of Russian cyberattacks aimed at presidential vote

Ukraine is bracing itself for “unprecedented” cyberattacks during the first round of voting in the presidential election on March 31, Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service has warned.  “Russia intends to carry out unprecedented cyberattacks on the servers of the Central Election Commission and district election commissions of Ukraine on the day of the presidential election in …

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Leading Ukraine candidate fights “fakes with fakes” as Facebook tests new political ad rules

On a recent afternoon inside the digital campaign headquarters of Ukrainian comedian and presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskyy, around a dozen young volunteers sat glued to computer screens. Their task was twofold: to scour social media sites for impostor accounts and “fake news” about their candidate while trying to fend off armies of bots spreading negative …

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Ukrainians urge Amazon to drop Donetsk separatist kitsch from ‘marketplace’

While a variety of Donetsk separatist kitsch items, such as this one, have been made available on Amazon’s marketplace, some Ukrainians consider them as “terrorist” swag and are demanding a ban, preferably in time for Christmas. “Amazon profits from promoting terrorism,” Health Minister Ulana Suprun charged in a bilingual Facebook post alongside images of the …

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