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To: elmatador who wrote (1773)	7/25/2018 3:34:29 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2516

Facebook blocks pages of Brazilian political group ft.com The social media company, which counts Brazil as one of its largest markets, targeted the Movimento Brazil Livre (MBL) or “Free Brazil Movement”, a rightwing group that championed the impeachment of leftist former president Dilma Rousseff two years ago. Facebook was deactivating 196 pages and 87 accounts in Brazil, which it said were part of “a co-ordinated network that hid behind fake Facebook accounts and misled people about the nature and origin of its content, all for the purpose of sowing division and spreading misinformation”.