Facebook continues to be used as a
vehicle for disinformation. This is done by publishing provocative news (not always fake, but certainly presented with nefarious gusto) under false pretenses to influence the division in large population. Facebook said on Tuesday that it had identified several new Iranian and Russian influence campaigns on its platform designed to mislead people in different countries and regions. Able Renee DiResta of the New Knowledge Research Group said "malicious narratives are spreading to mislead people around the world". The news comes on the same day as reports that Microsoft has found Russian government affiliated
websites that masquerade as websites of prominent American conservative think tank websites. The saw of confusion cuts in all directions. Know your links, or you may be sharing falsehoods that have suspicious origin and negatively disruptive intention. - Vaughan
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