{"id":29590,"date":"2019-01-18T01:22:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T01:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29590"},"modified":"2019-01-18T01:22:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T01:22:56","slug":"facebook-takes-down-anti-nato-pages-linked-to-russian-news-agency-sputnik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29590","title":{"rendered":"Facebook takes down anti-NATO pages linked to Russian news agency Sputnik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New York (CNN Business)<\/cite>Facebook removed hundreds of pages on Thursday it said posed as independent news sites in eastern Europe and elsewhere but were actually run by employees at Russian state-owned news agency Sputnik. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The takedown is the latest in a series of actions taken by the social media giant against Russian disinformation. Last February, special counsel Robert Mueller indicted a Russian troll group for conspiracy to defraud the United States. The group had <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2018\/02\/16\/media\/internet-research-agency-mueller-indictment\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">posed as Americans on Facebook.<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Facebook (<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=fb\" target=\"_blank\">FB<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/news\/2019\/01\/removing-cib-from-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> the 364 pages and accounts removed Thursday<strong> <\/strong>had almost 800,000 followers and had spent around $135,000 on ads on the platform between October 2013 and this month. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (CNN Business)Facebook removed hundreds of pages on Thursday it said posed as independent news sites in eastern Europe and elsewhere but were actually run by employees at Russian state-owned news agency Sputnik. The takedown is the latest in a series of actions taken by the social media giant against Russian disinformation. Last February,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}