Facebook shuts down network of fake accounts tied to employees of Brazil's Bolsonaro and sons

Facebook has removed dozens of what it said are fake social media accounts linked to the offices of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his sons. The accounts were used to target journalists and political opponents of the president, and also discussed the coronavirus.

In a statement Wednesday, Facebook's Head of Security Policy Nathaniel Gleicher said the company took down "35 Facebook accounts, 14 Pages, 1 Group and 38 Instagram accounts that were involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior in Brazil."

Gleicher wrote the people behind the accounts "attempted to conceal their identities," but were discovered to be "associated with the Social Liberal Party and some of the employees of the offices of Anderson Moraes, Alana Passos, Eduardo Bolsonaro, Flavio Bolsonaro and Jair Bolsonaro."
Moraes and Passos are state-level legislators in Rio de Janeiro from the conservative Social Liberal Party. Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro and Senator Flavio Bolsonaro are the president's sons.

The accounts reportedly posted about "domestic politics and elections." They also posted "criticism of the political opposition, media organizations and journalists, and most recently they posted about the coronavirus pandemic," Facebook said, adding that one or more of the social media pages had more than 883,000 followers.

The social network removed the accounts not for their content, but for "inauthentic" activity that aimed "to evade enforcement, create fictitious personas posing as reporters, post content, and manage Pages masquerading as news outlets."

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