MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s foreign ministry on Thursday dismissed as “speculation” allegations by Facebook that Moscow had used it to pursue a covert political influence operation in the United States and Britain.
Facebook said on Tuesday that the operation had posed as an independent news outlet to target left-wing voters in the United States and Britain, including by recruiting unwitting freelance journalists to write about domestic politics.
(Reporting by Gabrielle Ttrault-Farber and Andrey Ostroukh; writing by Tom Balmforth; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
