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Facebook suspends Pages from Russia-linked viral video company
Facebook's crackdown on Russia-linked accounts has usually taken down outlets with a relatively small presence, but its latest move is more substantial. The social network has suspended three Pages from Maffick Media, a viral video outlet that has racked up 30 million views in the space of a few months, over a lack of disclosure. Maffick is majority-owned by Ruptly, a subsidiary of the Russia-backed outlet RT, but didn't mention this on any of its Pages, including politically slanted ones like Soapbox and Backthen. Facebook doesn't officially require disclosure for Pages' parent companies like it does for political ads, but a spokesperson told CNN that it would ask for disclosure as part of an effort to give people "more information about the Pages they follow."
