That's 2.8 billion fake accounts Facebook had to delete. Billion. With a "B." Maybe don't go there for your news, guys. https://t.co/l3bnXuWbIS

— Hutch (@hutchinson) May 5, 2019

Facebook has 2.4 billion active users.

It took down *2.8 billion* fake accounts last year. https://t.co/NhW68x4xy1

— David Fickling (@davidfickling) May 5, 2019

Facebook has just announced a two new takedowns of fake Russian assets.

The first takedown looks like standard IRA-like disinformation, mostly targeted at Ukraine.

The second is more interesting, including a targeted campaign against an official.https://t.co/jIU1ptbOh8

— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) May 6, 2019

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking about serious social manipulation. https://t.co/zwvKK7LHv7

— Ed Bott (@edbott) May 6, 2019

Facebook has zero credibility till the day its CEO gives evidence to ⁦@CommonsCMS⁩ https://t.co/OMb4S4jiS5

— Ian Lucas MP (@IanCLucas) May 5, 2019

Two sets of accounts got taken down today, 90+ targeting Ukraine. 21 accounts focused on EU politics.

Removing More Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior From Russia – Facebook Newsroom https://t.co/ub3GQg8waF

— Josh Russell (@josh_emerson) May 6, 2019

Facebook has found more evidence of "coordinated inauthentic behavior" from Russian accounts. Some in Ukraine, some in Europe. https://t.co/jV2eFBnAWF

— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) May 6, 2019

"Coordinated inauthentic behavior" is corporate jargon for organized efforts to troll, spread & amplify disinformation using fake accounts.@Facebook announced more takedowns: https://t.co/rLMEPen0CT
In a military context, this would resemble "active measures."

— Alex Howard (@digiphile) May 6, 2019

Interesting timing ??https://t.co/NlJW5V0TGg

And ex FB CISO reaction https://t.co/t3hBMT4vIJ

CC: @MiaD @hessiejones @aselawaid

— Alaric Aloor ??⚽️? (@AlaricAloor) May 6, 2019

On new FB takedowns https://t.co/flMgU3iYCE. All of the below. https://t.co/GHMkeeAlK7

— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) May 6, 2019

#FACEBOOK Removes Coordinated Inauthentic Accounts from #Russia—Pages & Groups of networks targeting #Austria, the #Baltics, #Germany, #Spain, #Ukraine, the #UK with #disinformation, fake news, #propaganda. #EU?? #elections are in weeks. https://t.co/SJXzXDQwRj h/t @alexstamos

— Paula Chertok? (@PaulaChertok) May 6, 2019

Up early this bank holiday Monday to join @AudreyCarville on Morning Ireland - Facebook have launched their operations room for #EP2019 in Dublin; FB has an important role to play but election integrity across Europe shouldn’t be left to a private company! https://t.co/g7bJji2vVE

— Liz Carolan (@LizCarolan) May 6, 2019

Inside Facebook's European election war room https://t.co/9ndMBLgXlc

— Will Goodbody (@willgoodbody) May 5, 2019

Spoke to @willgoodbody of @rtenews about some of the recent trends @Storyful has observed regarding #misinformation online, ahead of #EP2019https://t.co/zNPst4xf7I

— Padraic Ryan (@ryan_padraic) May 5, 2019

"Facebook has a lot of work to do to combat extremism and election interference on its platform. But that isn’t going to be solved by 40 people “hunched over” in a “war room” that’s clearly just set up for public relations purposes."https://t.co/9cs2zWdxGH

— Greg Otto (@gregotto) May 6, 2019

Cool!

Facebook Invites Journalists to See New 'War Room,' Won't Let Them Ask Workers Questions https://t.co/VXQBFkNTN6

— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) May 6, 2019

Facebook Invites Journalists to See New 'War Room,' Won't Let Them Ask Workers Questions https://t.co/oVxKFEnpfQ via @gizmodo

— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) May 6, 2019

when will facebook run out of outlets to fall for "reporting" on its "war room" https://t.co/b7r9J06Up6

— Casey Johnston (@caseyjohnston) May 6, 2019

Political groups from Hungary to Spain have been able to circumvent Facebook’s new political transparency tools to quietly buy partisan social media advertising aimed at swaying potential voters, according to an analysis by POLITICO. @markscott82 https://t.co/VC3CqFRYuM

— Lili Bayer (@liliebayer) May 5, 2019

Inside Facebook's European election war room https://t.co/ounyBbIK31

— toomas hendrik ilves (@IlvesToomas) May 5, 2019

Some thoughts on Facebook's European election advertising efforts from @markscott82 @mathver and I... https://t.co/5gUVyyFdeC

— Chloe Colliver (@ChloeColliver2) May 6, 2019

In a sparsely-decorated office in Dublin, @facebook staffers are working to protect the upcoming #EUElection2019. But POLITICO has found evidence of dozens of political ads that got through FB’s transparency net, raising the question: is FB doing enough?https://t.co/j7pdAVKmVb pic.twitter.com/pekQKprOOZ

— Mark Scott (@markscott82) May 5, 2019

With only weeks to go before #EUelections2019

Many #PoliticalAds still escape @Facebook's scrutiny.#DefendingDemocracy #EP2019 #GDPR #BigTech #BigData #InfoWarshttps://t.co/vJY0AKXa1v pic.twitter.com/Pgt92mBbVT

— Defending Democracy (@DefendDemocracy) May 5, 2019

Good to see RTE covering this - some great reporting too out from Politico who’ve been to see the Dublin operations centre, and have been doing some digging into how FB’s efforts are going https://t.co/EbN4AF1cZH

— Liz Carolan (@LizCarolan) May 6, 2019

Inside Facebook's EU non-war room election war room
The social network created a team in Dublin to counter wrongdoing, but political ads and misinformation are still reaching voters.#EUelections2019 https://t.co/wMmdJoTaJC

— Ryan Heath (@PoliticoRyan) May 5, 2019

Election inteference and #EUelections2019 ”with weeks to go until elections... Facebook has yet to publicly disclose any successful efforts that it has carried out to thwart digital campaigns focused on misleading European voters” https://t.co/jIxT2ArgpZ

— EUGenDem (@EUGenDem) May 6, 2019

“There are a set of actors that want to manipulate public debate," he told the @NYTimes https://t.co/rNWOcWSclc …as if corporations & states using marketing & propaganda to influence folks is novel, while obscuring what @Facebook is actually doing in a new EU elections "warroom" pic.twitter.com/0cJmq2VRc5

— Alex Howard (@digiphile) May 6, 2019

Facebook is eager to show it’s prepared for the European elections to be held later this month. I joined a media tour of its new election “war room” last week. https://t.co/W9w9x4EUuj via ⁦@nytimes⁩

— Adam Satariano (@satariano) May 5, 2019

Who guards the guardians?
https://t.co/G9TGwBnPV7

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 5, 2019

Facebook opens EU election monitoring unit in Dublin https://t.co/j2jvTpDJfT

— Financial Times (@FT) May 5, 2019

Facebook opens 40-person EU election monitoring effort in Dublin https://t.co/01tY49OBJ0

— FT Companies (@ftcompanies) May 5, 2019

. @facebook: We removed 97 Facebook accounts, Pages and Groups that were involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior as part of a network emanating from Russia that focused on Ukraine.https://t.co/waJpi9h8T0

— Stop Fake (@StopFakingNews) May 7, 2019

Two new Russia-related takedowns: Facebook just removed a number of fake pages, groups, and accounts on Facebook and Instagram. The two sets are unrelated and not connected. The second set in particular is small at first glance—but also interesting https://t.co/iRe0l4ONvo

— Thomas Rid (@RidT) May 6, 2019

FB took down a network of fake accounts running pages and groups.

The core of the operation was @InfoPolk ("information regiment"): four separate pages pointing to different parts of the website of the same name.

FB statement here: https://t.co/orc59SGLgL

— Ben Nimmo (@benimmo) May 7, 2019

NEW: Facebook removed 118 pages, accounts, & groups involved in coordinated inauthentic activity as part of 2 separate Russian-backed operations. One targeted Ukraine; the other focused on Austria, the Baltics, Germany, Spain, Ukraine & the U.K.https://t.co/Aq82EmVt03

— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) May 6, 2019

What is the "nauthentic Behavior on facebook"?
Censors found accounts that shared political articles , posted ads , wait for it, $1 worth, and then banned them from FB - not only the above mentioned accounts but also those who FOLLOWED those accounts. https://t.co/jP9pukaClL pic.twitter.com/seDF1G0bvq

— Elena Evdokimova (@elenaevdokimov7) May 7, 2019

Removing More Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior From Russia | Facebook Newsroom - Facebook is taking down an inauthentic network or two every week it seems. https://t.co/Tdb4yiH4OT

— Clint Watts (@selectedwisdom) May 6, 2019

Showing extent of Russian effort targeting Ukraine: "We removed 97 Facebook accounts, Pages and Groups that were involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior as part of a network emanating from Russia that focused on Ukraine"
https://t.co/g1ASiB6KJk

— Taras Kuzio (@TarasKuzio) May 7, 2019

Welcoming step, but the proof will be in the pudding: Facebook Opens a Command Post to Thwart Election Meddling in Europe https://t.co/tPIBWULNAX

— Kestas Vaskelevicius (@VaskeleviciusK) May 7, 2019

FB's new "war room" in Europe. Wonder who they're at "war" with? ?https://t.co/70SRAO7MoZ

— Demeter (@14Demeter) May 7, 2019

Facebook announces that it won't allow Golden Dawn representatives on the platform even though it sits at about 7% in the polls in Greece.

“There are today elected representatives that are not allowed on the platform, like Golden Dawn in Greece."https://t.co/g06j41W4q6 https://t.co/73OYQ9gnzv

— Diversity Macht Frei (@Czakal) May 7, 2019