<p class="title">Facebook says it has removed hundreds of Russia-linked pages, groups and accounts that it says were part of two big disinformation operations, in its latest effort to fight fake news.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The social media company said Thursday it took action after finding two networks "that engaged in coordinated inauthentic behaviour" on its Facebook and Instagram platforms.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Facebook's head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, said in a blog post that one network operated in countries in Central and Eastern Europe and the other focused on Ukraine.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The people running the accounts represented themselves as independent news sources and posted on topics like anti-NATO sentiment and protest movements.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Gleicher says one network of 364 pages and accounts were linked to employees of Sputnik, a Russian state-run English-language news site. Sputnik did not reply to emailed requests for comment.</p>
<p class="title">Facebook says it has removed hundreds of Russia-linked pages, groups and accounts that it says were part of two big disinformation operations, in its latest effort to fight fake news.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The social media company said Thursday it took action after finding two networks "that engaged in coordinated inauthentic behaviour" on its Facebook and Instagram platforms.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Facebook's head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, said in a blog post that one network operated in countries in Central and Eastern Europe and the other focused on Ukraine.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The people running the accounts represented themselves as independent news sources and posted on topics like anti-NATO sentiment and protest movements.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Gleicher says one network of 364 pages and accounts were linked to employees of Sputnik, a Russian state-run English-language news site. Sputnik did not reply to emailed requests for comment.</p>