Facebook Pulls Down Fake Accounts And Pages Linked To Roger Stone

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District Judge Paul Oetken in Manhattan, Lev Parnas and another former Giuliani associate, Igor Fruman, also pleaded not guilty to violating campaign finance laws and other charges in an amended indictment. At a hearing on Monday before U.S.

Some of the fake accounts posed as Florida residents and posted about local politics, Stone's trial, 2016 US presidential candidates and Stone's Facebook Pages, websites, books and media appearances. Graphika, which analyzed the fake accounts tied to Stone, said the accounts "showed particular hostility" toward 2016 Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. 

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Attorney Nicolas Roos defended the government's handling of the case, telling Oetken that prosecutors had not been able to access seven locked electronic devices from Parnas and Fruman that it had seized.

The accounts were most active between 2015 to 2017 and some had already been deleted.  The social network removed 54 Facebook accounts, 50 pages and four Instagram accounts tied to Stone and his associates for violating its rules against misleading others about their identity and purpose.

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Graphika, which analyzed the fake accounts tied to Stone, said the accounts "showed particular hostility" toward 2016 Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.  Some of the fake accounts posed as Florida residents and posted about local politics, Stone's trial, 2016 US presidential candidates and Stone's Facebook Pages, websites, books and media appearances.

"Their harm isn't ongoing, but it's important and we want people to understand what happened and we also recognize that they could reactivate at some point and so we wanted to remove these so that they didn't have that opportunity," Nathaniel Gleicher, who oversees cybersecurity policy at Facebook, said in a press call.

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Facebook routinely pulls down networks of fake accounts, but it's unusual for the company to look at accounts that are no longer posting content. The move raises questions about what fake accounts Facebook might have missed in the past, but it also shows the company is thinking about ways people might try to get back onto the platform after they're booted from the social network. 

Prosecutors accused Parnas and his partner of conning people into investing more than $2 million in their Florida-based start-up, Fraud Guarantee, only to withdraw much of it for personal uses, including political donations.

The social network removed 54 Facebook accounts, 50 pages and four Instagram accounts tied to Stone and his associates for violating its rules against misleading others about their identity and purpose. The accounts were most active between 2015 to 2017 and some had already been deleted. 



"Their harm isn't ongoing, but it's important and we want people to understand what happened and we also recognize that they could reactivate at some point and so we wanted to remove these so that they didn't have that opportunity," Nathaniel Gleicher, who oversees cybersecurity policy at Facebook, said in a press call.



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About 260,000 accounts followed at least one of these fake Pages. Roughly 61,500 people followed at least one of these Instagram accounts.  Some of the fake Facebook pages garnered a following from Pakistan and Egypt.





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It's just not true," he said. In an interview with SiriusXM's Jim Norton & Sam Roberts Show on Thursday, Stone denied the allegations. "The charge that I owned hundreds of fake Facebook pages is categorically false.