Social networking site, Facebook said on Thursday that it removed hundreds of Russia-linked pages, groups and accounts which were part of two big disinformation operations targeting users outside the U.S.<br />''<br />''The Facebook said, its latest effort to fight misinformation came after it found two networks that engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and its Instagram service.<br />''<br />''According to Facebook, the people running the accounts represented themselves as independent news sources and posted on topics like anti-NATO sentiment and protest movements.<br />''<br />''Facebook's head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, said,  one network of 364 pages and accounts was linked to employees of Sputnik, a Russian state-run English-language news site. Meanwhile, Sputnik criticized Facebook's takedown.<br />