Facebook on Thursday denied The New York Times report that suggested that the social network was aware of a Russian campaign designed to influence the 2016 US presidential election as early as spring of 2016.
“Leading up to Election Day in November 2016, we detected and dealt with several threats with ties to Russia … [including] a group called APT28 … we also saw some new behaviour when APT28-related accounts, under the banner of DC Leaks, created fake personas that were used to seed stolen information to journalists. We shut these accounts down for violating our policies,” Zuckerberg had said.
Responding to the criticism of Facebook’s decision on keeping a post in which Trump called for a “total and complete shutdown” on Muslims entering the US, Facebook said the post remained because it did not break the company’s Community Standards “for the same reasons The New York Times and many other organisations covered the news: Donald Trump was a candidate running for office.”
