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Twitter and Facebook accuse China of social media campaign against Hong Kong protesters
Facebook and Twitter said they had shut down nearly 1,000 active accounts linked to China.
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Aug 20th 2019, 11:34 AM
# Data privacy
Facebook banned 583 million fake accounts in the first three months of the year
Facebook said those closures came on top of blocking millions of attempts to create fake accounts every day.
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May 15th 2018, 9:38 PM
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Auction appears hijacked as "Racist McShootFace" bids $65m for gun that killed Trayvon Martin
The account was later deleted.
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May 13th 2016, 4:50 PM