On Sept. 13 Mikhail Degtyarev, an MP from the far-right Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, sent a letter to Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications Nikolai Nikiforov requesting that action be taken against Ukrainian bots he said are unfairly targeting Russian-language Facebook users. In a tweet responding to the news, an arm of the Ukrainian government's Ministry of Information Policy seemed to thank those responsible for creating the bots.
Degtyarev, who posted his letter to Nikiforov on Live Journal, complained that bots – fake accounts created to spam news and social media websites – are reporting Russian language profiles to Facebook’s “abuse team” for their commentary on political developments in Ukraine.
