disinformation
Rudy Giuliani is described in the report as having a “high susceptibility to disinformation," The Daily Beast reports.
University lecturers have accused rescue workers the White Helmets of mass murder in Syria – to condemnation from Amnesty International and others.
More than 2,800 deceptive Twitter accounts were deleted, along with numerous Facebook accounts, pages and groups.
New study finds these Americans shared more false information during Trump's presidential campaign than other demographics.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
U.S. law enforcement tipped the social media giant off to accounts that may have been trying to influence the election outcome.
The pages were overseen by Iranians posing as U.S. and U.K. citizens.
Facebook has previously shied away from banning false and misleading posts in part because of the expense.
The Trump administration's "disinformation campaign" will be examined in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's course.
The influence campaigns were taken down ahead of the midterm elections .
The social media site emailed users who had interacted with the accounts directly on Friday.