When Facebook finally took down an account that Israeli activists had been flagging as fake for over a year, they didn’t breathe a sigh of relief. The user, purportedly an Israeli woman named Noa Shamir, was only one out of a large web of fake accounts active on the social network that targeted the protest movement against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Facebook is but one platform in the Israeli social media ecosystem – activists have long said that the fake account and others like it are also active on Twitter, Instagram and even Telegram, the closed messaging platform.
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