# Incident I00073: Disinformation campaign removed by Facebook linked to Russia’s Internet Research Agency

* **Summary:** <I>“On September 24, 2020, Facebook took down a small network of assets — a single Facebook page, five user profiles, and three Instagram accounts — linked to United World International, a fringe blogging outlet that spread anti-Western geopolitical narratives in English as well as Turkish. The outlet appeared to be managed by several people connected to the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA), the notorious Kremlin-linked troll farm known for its interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections.”</i>

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| [https://medium.com/dfrlab/disinformation-campaign-removed-by-facebook-linked-to-russias-internet-research-agency-3cbd88d0dad](https://medium.com/dfrlab/disinformation-campaign-removed-by-facebook-linked-to-russias-internet-research-agency-3cbd88d0dad) | 2020/09/24 | Nika Aleksejev, Roman Osadchuk | DFRLab | [https://web.archive.org/web/20240628122121/https://medium.com/dfrlab/disinformation-campaign-removed-by-facebook-linked-to-russias-internet-research-agency-3cbd88d0dad](https://web.archive.org/web/20240628122121/https://medium.com/dfrlab/disinformation-campaign-removed-by-facebook-linked-to-russias-internet-research-agency-3cbd88d0dad) |

 

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