# Professor Michael Posner applauds Facebook's removal of accounts controlled by the Russia-based Internet Research Agency (IRA)

1 Faculty News April 4, 2018 ![Newsweek Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_036515.gif?itok=5lGUsWxV)>

Excerpt from [Newsweek](http://www.newsweek.com/what-internet-research-agency-facebook-shuts-hundreds-accounts-linked-russia-870889) -- "'Facebook has appropriately banned the IRA from its platforms,' said [Michael Posner](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/michael-posner), director of the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights. 'We applaud Facebook for recognizing that Russian disinformation online is a serious problem and for developing a response to this sustained effort to inject political propaganda into American society, as well into Russian and European societies.'"

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