Kremlin ties to pages deleted by Facebook should have been obvious months ago

Facebook trumpeted the deletion of hundreds of pages and accounts run by the Internet Research Agency, the Kremlin-linked troll army that has sought to meddle in U.S. politics. But of the five examples of deleted accounts Facebook provided the public, two had links to the troll army that should have been obvious to the social networking company months ago.

Among the five examples of shuttered accounts Facebook provided in its blog post announcing the move on April 3 were the pages "RU Open" and "Politkach." The Twitter accounts associated with both of these pages were included in the list published by the House Intelligence Committee in November -- five months before the Facebook accounts were deleted. A YouTube account associated with RU Open remained active until April 4.