Some 105 accounts, 24 pages and five Instagram accounts were found to have been posting content supportive of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy s ruling Sluha Narodu (Servant of the People) party and the current Ukrainian government.
But a separate network comprising some 477 accounts, 363 Pages, 35 Groups and 29 accounts, which had amassed an audience of more than 2 million in what Facebook termed a long-running deceptive influence operation , was also wiped after a tip-off from the FBI.
This bigger outfit had promoted a number of individuals from across the Ukrainian political spectrum over several years. Both networks used fake profile pages and tried to drive users onto custom-made webpages masquerading as objective news websites.