A Russian organization whose accountant was indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice earlier this year has sued Facebook, claiming its page was a legitimate news source that the social media company unfairly removed.

In a suit filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the Federal Agency of News and its general director, Evgeniy Zubarev, sought damages and an injunction preventing Facebook from deleting its page. Facebook deleted the FAN page in April during a sweep of Russian accounts linked to the Internet Research Agency, which has been accused of meddling in the 2016 election.

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