Facebook : Israeli company used fake accounts to target African elections

Facebook: Israeli company used fake accounts to target African elections

Facebook has removed many faux Facebook and Instagram pages, groups, associated accounts that it says were go by an Israeli firm that was targeting countries in Africa.

The Israeli company physicist cluster spent over $800,000 running Facebook ads and their accounts had virtually three million followers, Facebook aforesaid in an exceedingly journal post saying the removals Th. 

Archimedes cluster used faux accounts and "represented themselves as locals, as well as native news organizations, and revealed allegedly leaked info concerning politicians," Facebook aforesaid.

The company primarily targeted African country, Senegal, Togo, Angola, Niger and Republic of Tunisia however conjointly had some activity targeting geographical area and geographical region, per Facebook.

A website that seems to belong to the physicist cluster boasts that its groups "took vital roles in several political and public campaigns, among them Presidential elections and different social media projects all over the world."

"Archimedes has created and operates in its own distinctive field among the social media realm," it continues.
Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook's head of cybersecurity policy, wrote, "The Page administrators and account owners frequently posted about political news, including topics like elections in various countries, candidate views and criticism of political opponents."