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Facebook has denied any wrongdoing in the matter.

June 22, 2018 by Ella Pickett

Facebook has denied any wrongdoing in the matter.

The two Instagram accounts are being operated by People to Share information with other people.

"There's a lot of misinformation out there," said David R. Farr, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's College of Law and a senior fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology at the Cato Institute.

"They will say they're trying to get people to share data — but people aren't going to do that. I'm not sure how we can be in that situation."

The two accounts have been linked to more than 1 million users, according to The New Yorker. They are now linked to Facebook because they were banned from the blog after the site's administrators posted comments mocking the Russian account and then the post was removed.

The accounts have also been linked to two other Facebook accounts that were not blocked, The Washington Times reported.

"There are two different timelines for the two accounts: one in which Facebook users are not allowed to post on the account, and the other in which Facebook posts are not allowed. That would be a different timeline than the one before," Farr said. "There are also a couple of very different timelines that Facebook users use."

At the same time, he said, "you don't want to be a target for people who are not familiar with who they are on Facebook. They're also doing this because they're afraid that Facebook has decided to put their personal information at risk."

In a recent interview with Breitbart, Farr said he and his team work closely with social networks to "create a platform that people can use to share information."

"We have a set of guidelines that we put in place to ensure that we're doing something right," Farr said. "We have a set of guidelines for social media that we put in place to ensure that we're doing something right. So we're doing a lot of that right. And we're doing it in a way that we're doing everything right."

A couple of years ago, Farr and his team tried to take down two of the accounts that were trying to do it. However, they were blocked and no one had the ability to remove them.

In April, the company announced it would close some of the three accounts that were involved in making the posts, but it had no immediate plans to do otherwise.

"These actions are not part of the company's ongoing efforts to address the spread of disinformation, fake news and terrorist groups," said a Facebook spokesperson