| This new network revealed a link between the September 2019 DotDev takedown and the December 2019 Smaat takedown | Facebook then shared with us 55 Pages linked to this Twitter network; we analyzed these Pages before Facebook removed them |
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| Following extensive additional investigation based on the tip, Twitter shared with us a network of 36,523,977 tweets from 5,350 accounts that have been taken down |
The distribution pattern of the hashtag looked suspicious, and the images that appeared with the hashtag looked similar to those that Twitter removed in September 2019 as part of a takedown of a prior state-backed influence operation originating in the UAE and Egypt.
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