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Japan's Ministry of Finance (MOF) warned on Thursday of a fake account for its top currency diplomat Masato Kanda on social media X, formerly known as Twitter, as the market fears a currency intervention amid the yen's drop to a one-month-low.In a rare English-language post on X, the ministry said "Please don't follow the impersonation account and/or comment on the post", saying such an X account purportedly belonging to Kanda or his staff did not exist."MOF is currently requesting that X (formerly Twitter) suspends the…

Facebook parent company Meta said Thursday it had taken down two fake account networks with links to the governments of Cuba and Bolivia that were used to spread official propaganda and discredit the opposition. It closed hundreds of fake accounts, but not before the networks had managed to reach hundreds of thousands of people, Meta's threat intelligence global lead Ben Nimmo told AFP via videoconference. Meta investigators "linked the activity to the governments in question," he added. California-based Meta…