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American politicians are demanding details from Facebook about how many fake online accounts created by foreign actors helped promote Canada’s convoy protests.
The chair of the most powerful investigative body in the U.S. House of Representatives this week sent a letter to company founder Mark Zuckerberg seeking information about inauthentic activity.
New York Democrat Carolyn Maloney asked Zuckerberg nine questions about the extent to which fake accounts from abroad helped organizers spread the word.
The questions include, how many fake accounts Facebook identified related
