Facebook has taken down more than 130 British accounts, groups and pages that it claims were part of a UK-based ‘fake news’ network. The pages posed as both far-right and anti-fascist outlets in a co-ordinated attempt to ‘manipulate’ the political debate in Britain, said Facebook head of cybersecurity Nathaniel Gleicher. He said the 137 accounts, which had more than 180,000 followers, deliberately used hate speech and misinformation in a bid to spread division on social networks.
Source: Daily Mail