President Trump's longtime confidant Roger Stone was booted from Instagram today after Facebook determined he participated in an effort to spread “inauthentic” information — in some cases about his own criminal trial
President Donald Trump's longtime confidant Roger Stone was booted from Instagram on Wednesday after Facebook determined he participated in an effort to spread “inauthentic” information — in some cases about his own criminal trial.
Facebook said the network that included Stone was “most active” from 2015 to 2017 and has been largely dormant since. But back then it regularly posted about local Florida politics and promoted Stone, as well as his books, websites and his media appearances. The pages also promoted Wikileaks releases of hacked emails from Hillary Clinton and her allies in late 2016.
"The claim that I have utilized or controlled unauthorized or fake accounts on any platform is categorically and provably false," he said in a lengthy statement that also decried his treatment by the FBI, prosecutors, the judge and jury in his case. "I have never owned or controlled any fake Facebook, Twitter or Instagram accounts."
Stone’s removal was revealed as part of a broader removal of four separate networks of accounts “for violating our policy against foreign interference and coordinated inauthentic behavior.” The others included efforts in Canada and Ecuador, Ukraine and Brazil. Hunting down these inauthentic actors took on greater significance in the wake of the 2016 presidential election after it was discovered that trolls tied to the Russian government spread scores of fake articles and politically divisive posts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube in an effort to tip the race in Trump’s favor.
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