Facebook announced Wednesday that it had deleted old pages from Roger Stone, a close friend of US President Donald Trump, for disinformation.
It was the recent publication of documents gathered during the investigation by special prosecutor Robert Mueller into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election, which enabled Facebook bloodhounds to measure the extent of the network created by Roger Stone and to close pages of this longtime friend of the American president, a character as colorful as sulphurous.
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The platform, which had already discovered part of the network by investigating the attempts of the Proud Boys, a far-right group banned from the network in 2018, blocked dozens of accounts and pages, themselves followed by 260,000 subscribers as well 4 Instagram accounts.
The network was most active between 2015 and 2017, says Facebook. It was as part of the Mueller investigation that Roger Stone was sentenced to 40 months in prison for perjury. The first social network in the world specifies that these accounts spent only 308,000 dollars on advertisements and paid in dollars.
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