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According to the company, the thirty Facebook accounts and the 85 Instagram pages that Facebook suspended several hours before the US congressional elections are linked to the Internet Research Agency (IRA). The organization is better known as the Russian troll factory located in St. Petersburg.
"A website claiming to be affiliated with the IRA has published a list of Instagram accounts that they claimed to have created," said Nathaniel Gleicher, head of cyber security at Facebeook in a statement against TechCrunch . "We have already blocked most accounts yesterday and we have also blocked the rest."
Facebook has put these accounts offline after a tip from the US court system. On Instagram, accounts posted messages in English. Facebook was Russian and French messages
The accounts were blocked on the eve of the US congressional elections, with residents of the country voting for seats in the House of Representatives and a third of the Senate.
US authorities are still investigating Russia's role in the 2016 US presidential election and the links between Russia and President Donald Trump.
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