The troops were also urged not to post information about their service and unit details, and to disable geolocation on their mobile devices.
When the employees of the famous “troll factory” in St. Petersburg return to their desks after the Russian holidays, they will be writing comments and posts on social media in much more spacious offices, the Euromaidan Press reported.
Facebook and Twitter could face sanctions if they continue to stonewall parliament over Russian interference in the EU referendum, the chair of a Commons inquiry has said, according to the Guardian.
In Ukraine, opinion leaders in social networks have become a special caste that have a significant influence over the country's society, according to Novoye Vremya magazine.
Russia used social media to sow chaos and divide Americans during the 2016 election, U.S. Senator John McCain, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement.
Facebook Inc. is looking to hire people who have national security clearances, a move the company thinks is necessary to prevent foreign powers from manipulating future elections through its social network, according to a person familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reports.
The Defense Ministry is set to ban Russian soldiers from uploading information to the internet that could give away their affiliation, activity or location, the news site RBC reported Thursday.
More than a month after Facebook and Twitter announced they had identified hundreds of fake accounts and thousands of ads secretly run by Russian state agents, ThinkProgress is shedding light on what the ads and accounts contained, what messages they pushed, and how they framed policy debates and viewed presidential candidates.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Thursday that the company will hand over more than 3,000 Russia-linked political ads to Congressional committees investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, according to Time magazine.