Iranians Impersonated Bernie Bros, Vowed to Stop Kavanaugh
Adam Rawnsley08.21.18 10:45 PM ET
An Iranian propaganda campaign created fake Bernie Sanders supporters online, Facebook disclosed Tuesday.
In a press release, the social-media giant said it had removed 652 pages associated with political-influence campaigns traced to Iran, including coordinated inauthentic behavior that originated in Iran and targeted people across multiple internet services in the Middle East, Latin America, U.K., and U.S.â€
The cybersecurity company FireEye, which first alerted Facebook to the influence campaign months ago, wrote in a separate posting on its site that it had traced the campaign—including posts from supposed “American liberals supportive of U.S. Senator Bernie Sandersâ€â€”to Iran through email addresses and phone numbers associated with the “inauthentic†accounts.
Read more at: https://www.thedailybeast.com/iranians-impersonated-bernie-bros-vowed-to-stop-kavanaugh
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