{"id":865621,"date":"2024-10-14T08:39:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T03:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=865621"},"modified":"2024-10-14T08:52:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T03:22:57","slug":"us-elections-metas-crackdown-on-fake-accounts-coincides-with-police-investigation-into-russian-backed-voter-bribery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/10\/14\/us-elections-metas-crackdown-on-fake-accounts-coincides-with-police-investigation-into-russian-backed-voter-bribery\/","title":{"rendered":"US Elections: Meta\u2019s crackdown on fake accounts coincides with police investigation into Russian-backed voter bribery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms said on Friday it had removed a network of group accounts targeting Russian-speakers in Moldova ahead of the country&#8217;s Oct. 20 election, for violation of the company&#8217;s policy on fake accounts. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities in Moldova, an ex-Soviet state lying between Romania and Ukraine, said they had blocked dozens of Telegram channels and chat bots linked to a drive to pay voters to cast &#8220;no&#8221; ballots in a referendum on EU membership held alongside the presidential election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms said on Friday it had removed a network of group accounts targeting Russian-speakers in Moldova ahead of the country&#8217;s Oct. 20 election, for violation of the company&#8217;s policy on fake accounts. Authorities in Moldova, an ex-Soviet state lying between Romania and Ukraine, said they had blocked dozens of Telegram channels and chat bots linked to a drive to pay voters to cast &#8220;no&#8221; ballots in a referendum on EU membership held alongside the presidential election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-865621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}