Probably deciding they weren’t making enough money off of it so there was no real point to letting the torrent of bullshit continue, Facebook (or “Meta” if you want to indulge their lame attempt at rebranding) on Tuesday announced they killed off a large network of Russian bots propagating a sophisticated set of some 60 fake news websites pushing Kremlin talking points about the war in Ukraine to European users on Facebook and Instagram, the Associated Press reports.
“On a few occasions, the operation’s content was amplified by the official Facebook pages of Russian embassies in Europe and Asia. I think this is probably the largest and most complex Russian-origin operation that we’ve disrupted since the beginning of the war in Ukraine earlier this year,” some overpaid asshole with a made-up title who works for Facebook told the AP.