Facebook takes down more Iranian pages targeting US and UK

"The Page administrators and account owners typically represented themselves as US citizens, or in a few cases UK citizens — and they posted about politically charged topics such as race relations, opposition to the President, and immigration," Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook's head of cybersecurity policy, said in a blog post.

The accounts were followed by more than 1 million people, Facebook said.

Facebook released screenshots of some of the pages, which were named "Wake Up America," "No racism no war," and "Thirst for Truth."

Among the images released by Facebook were memes posted by the pages, including one about President Trump that called him, "The worst, most hated president in American history!"

This is Facebook's second prominent takedown of Iranian content targeting Americans in recent months.

The company said it has shared its findings with US and UK law enforcement, the US Congress, and other technology companies.

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