META (proprietor of Fb, Instagram, and WhatsApp) has eliminated 76 pretend accounts and 30 Fb pages, in addition to 11 Russian-origin Instagram accounts, on account of misinformation,  the corporate’s report. The goal of this community of pretend accounts was Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.

Posts from these accounts supported Russia and criticized the West. In Georgia, they supported the Overseas Brokers Regulation, in Azerbaijan they criticized the West, and in Armenia, they posted pro-Russian opinions and criticism of Prime Minister Pashinyan.

In response to the report, this issues an data community that features “pretend” web sites akin to “Georgia Immediately” (sakartvelo-today.org) in Georgia, “Yerli.Media” (yerlimedia.org) in Azerbaijan, and “Lurer Media” (lurermedia.org) in Armenia. All these websites are related to the Moscow-based advertising and marketing firm IMA Digital.

META’s information exhibits that these information websites are additionally current on numerous platforms, together with YouTube, Telegram, and TikTok. Regardless of the closure of their accounts on Fb and Instagram, these websites proceed to function and publish “scorching information” in Georgian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, and Russian languages.

Details about the pretend accounts was offered by the Worldwide Society for Truthful Elections and Democracy (ISFED), which led to their discovery by META’s automated methods and subsequent blocking till the investigation is accomplished.