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Sep 2, 2020 08:00 am Cyber Security 263

Facebook uncovers Russian influence op, Amazon drivers hang phones from trees, and FBI investigates Twitter hack suspect. [IMAGE] Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen on June 30, 2020.

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Facebook announced on Tuesday it had uncovered an operation on its site linked to Russian's Internet Research Agency, which interfered in the 2016 US election to help elect President Donald Trump. The target audience of the operation, called Peace Data, was "Democratic Socialists, environmentalists, and disgruntled Democrats," according to an analysis by the social media experts at Graphika. ...

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