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stops Irish revolutionary army from... registering facebook account in Russia?

In this context, it's talking about Internet Research Agency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency

haha also couldn't understand how the Irish IRA was in anyway relevant. Makes a lot more sense now.

Ha all good. I almost put the full name, elected not to for some reason, and here we are

The founder of the agency is not with us anymore.

the rest of the organization sure is, though