Washington: Social media network Reddit announced on Tuesday that it had taken down nearly a thousand accounts suspected of links to Russia's Internet Research Agency.

The company said 316 posts from the Russian accounts were made on the popular pro-Trump page, The_Donald, which reflected intense support for the New York businessman during the 2016 presidential campaign.

The Internet Research Agency, based in St Petersburg, Russia, employs hundreds of people to push pro-Kremlin content under phony social media accounts, according to US lawmakers and researchers.

The office of US Special Counsel Robert Mueller charged 13 Russians and three Russian companies, including the Internet Research Agency, with engaging in a criminal and espionage conspiracy to tamper with the 2016 US presidential campaign to support Donald Trump and disparage Hillary Clinton.