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The statement was made after Facebook announced that it has deleted over 160 profiles and 28 Facebook pages and 8 Instagram accounts<\/strong> for “non-authentic behavior targeting people in Moldova”.<\/p>\n

Maia Sandu mentioned that there is clear evidence that the CEC must initiate the procedure for canceling the DPM’s registration as an electoral competitor in these elections.<\/p>\n

According to her, Facebook has officially stated that for the activity of trolls and fake pages denigrating the opposition and glorifying the government, “the pages created by DPM party promote it through propaganda and fake news”, about 20,000 dollars were spent<\/strong>, money undeclared at the CEC.<\/p>\n

“More serious is the fact that Facebook found that the work of some of these pages was linked to employees in the Government,” Maia Sandu said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Note:<\/strong>\u00a0In a press release,\u00a0Facebook announced<\/a> that this activity occurred in Moldova and used a combination of false accounts as well as some authentic accounts in order to mislead others about who they were and what they were doing.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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The Government’s reaction<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“As for the comments or posts made by the employees of the public institutions, we’d like to mention that more than 200,000 employees are paid out of the state budget, and the Government of the Republic of Moldova does not check the activity on the private account of the social enterprises of the employees”, the <\/span>Government’s\u00a0message<\/span>\u00a0said.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Moreover, according to the Government, employees have different political options and opinions, and the state is bound to keep the boundary between fighting the FakeNews phenomenon and guaranteeing freedom of expression for citizens.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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“Therefore, in order to combat the phenomenon of FakeNews, we will ask for additional information from Facebook,” the Government said.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>Party of Action and Solidarity Maia Sandu claims that the Democratic Party of Moldova (DPM) should be excluded from the electoral race for using undeclared money. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":446671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-446670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-society","tag-important"],"content_social_share":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

The statement was made after Facebook announced that it has deleted over 160 profiles and 28 Facebook pages and 8 Instagram accounts<\/strong> for “non-authentic behavior targeting people in Moldova”.<\/p>\n

Maia Sandu mentioned that there is clear evidence that the CEC must initiate the procedure for canceling the DPM’s registration as an electoral competitor in these elections.<\/p>\n

According to her, Facebook has officially stated that for the activity of trolls and fake pages denigrating the opposition and glorifying the government, “the pages created by DPM party promote it through propaganda and fake news”, about 20,000 dollars were spent<\/strong>, money undeclared at the CEC.<\/p>\n

“More serious is the fact that Facebook found that the work of some of these pages was linked to employees in the Government,” Maia Sandu said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Note:<\/strong>\u00a0In a press release,\u00a0Facebook announced<\/a> that this activity occurred in Moldova and used a combination of false accounts as well as some authentic accounts in order to mislead others about who they were and what they were doing.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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“As for the comments or posts made by the employees of the public institutions, we’d like to mention that more than 200,000 employees are paid out of the state budget, and the Government of the Republic of Moldova does not check the activity on the private account of the social enterprises of the employees”, the <\/span>Government’s\u00a0message<\/span>\u00a0said.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Moreover, according to the Government, employees have different political options and opinions, and the state is bound to keep the boundary between fighting the FakeNews phenomenon and guaranteeing freedom of expression for citizens.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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“Therefore, in order to combat the phenomenon of FakeNews, we will ask for additional information from Facebook,” the Government said.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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