A report released by Meta’s security team describes the company’s shutdown of a network of Facebook and Instagram accounts participating in what it calls coordinated inauthentic behavior, and linking some of those accounts to the US military.The people making posts via this network tried to appear as locals in the target countries, and used a wide array of different social media channels, including Twitter, YouTube, Telegram and VKontakte, as well as different websites and blogs.The network was first described publicly by researchers at social media analytics firm Graphika and the Stanford Internet Observatory in August.In total, 39 Facebook accounts, two Groups, 16 Pages and 26 Instagram accounts were said to be involved in the network, which spent around $2,500 on Facebook ads.China, Russia also involved in misinformation campaignsSimilar networks, one with its roots in China and another apparently based in Russia, were also taken down in Meta’s latest action."