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Facebook removes Chinese accounts active in Philippines and U.S. politics

- Facebook Inc said Tuesday it had removed a network of inauthentic Chinese accounts that were interfering in Asian and American politics, including some that posted material supporting and opposing U.S.

The most widely followed accounts and pages were in the Philippines, where they shared content supporting Chinas actions in the contested South China Sea and national leader Rodrigo Duterte.

Facebook cybersecurity policy chief Nathaniel Gleicher said that the takedown was the companys first of Chinese-based accounts on foreign-interference grounds with any engagement in U.S.

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