Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, published a report in which she reported on the blocking of fake accounts from Belarus and Poland.
According to company representatives, they blocked accounts and groups due to false posts about the migration crisis. The account holders from Poland presented themselves as migrants, and from Belarus as journalists and activists. The report also linked a network of 41 fake Facebook accounts and five Instagram accounts with the Belarusian KGB.
“Fake persons criticized Poland in English, Polish and Kurdish, distributed images and videos about alleged violations of migrants’ rights by Polish border guards,” the report says. It also says that some account holders wrote about Belarus’s relations with the Baltic countries in Russian.
Earlier, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that there are about 5,000 refugees from the Middle East in the republic. The migration crisis on the border between Poland and Belarus escalated on November 8. The West believes that Minsk has deliberately organized this situation.
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