{"id":4903,"date":"2022-02-28T11:37:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T10:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/28\/facebook-takes-down-disinformation-network-targeting-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2022-02-28T11:37:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T10:37:55","slug":"facebook-takes-down-disinformation-network-targeting-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/28\/facebook-takes-down-disinformation-network-targeting-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook takes down disinformation network targeting Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta says network ran websites posing as independent news entities and created fake personas<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2022\/feb\/28\/uk-politics-live-ukraine-visa-rules-refugees-ben-wallace-tom-tugendhat-latest\">Russia-Ukraine crisis: live news<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Facebook and Instagram have taken down a disinformation network targeting people in Ukraine, as their owner announced it was blocking access to Kremlin-backed media organisations in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta said it had uncovered a \u201crelatively small\u201d network of about 40 accounts, pages and groups on the two social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/feb\/28\/facebook-takes-down-disinformation-network-targeting-ukraine-meta-instagram\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e18aaebebf37d3c7fa6ac1aaaa6d26844a9489c9\/0_173_5064_3038\/master\/5064.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bebe7692821bd393ed58575432dfb0a5\" title=\"Facebook takes down disinformation network targeting Ukraine\" \/>Meta says network ran websites posing as independent news entities and created fake personas<br \/>\nRussia-Ukraine crisis: live news<br \/>\nFacebook and Instagram have taken down a disinformation network targeting people in Ukraine, as their owner announced it was blocking access to Kremlin-backed media organisations in the country.<br \/>\nMark Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta said it had uncovered a \u201crelatively small\u201d network of about 40 accounts, pages and groups on the two social media platforms. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta says network ran websites posing as independent news entities and created fake personas Russia-Ukraine crisis: live news Facebook and Instagram have taken down a disinformation network targeting people in Ukraine, as their owner announced it was blocking access to Kremlin-backed media organisations in the country. Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta said it had uncovered a \u201crelatively &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/28\/facebook-takes-down-disinformation-network-targeting-ukraine\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook takes down disinformation network targeting Ukraine<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}