Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. said on Thursday that they removed hundreds of fake accounts from Iran and Venezuela spreading misinformation on their social-media platforms. Twitter released a report stating that it had recently removed 764 accounts linked to Venezuela, which sent nearly 1 million Twitter messages ahead of the 2018 midterm election in the U.S., some of which were politically themed.

Source: Wall Street Journal January 31, 2019 20:16 UTC