DISINFO: Facebook and Twitter are controlled from a centre in the US
SUMMARY
The centre which controls powerful social networks, such as Twitter and Facebook, allowing them to manipulate public opinion, is located on the other side of the ocean.
RESPONSE
Pro-Kremlin disinformation claiming that the social networks (primarily Facebook and Twitter) are controlled from one centre on the other side of the ocean, in this case, in the USA. It is often claimed that the US uses social networks against Russia.
There is no evidence confirming that both Facebook and Twitter are controlled from one common centre. Facebook and Twitter are two separate independent organisations. Facebook was founded by a group of students from Harvard University in 2004, while Twitter was created in 2006 by former Google employees.
It is not the first time Twitter and Facebook are targeted by pro-Kremlin media sources. Read similar cases about Facebook and Google manipulating information to destroy Russia and Twitter censoring Russian media.