Facebook bans thousands of pages, accounts, and groups linked to Russia and Iran for ‘inauthentic behavior’
In addition to the Russia-linked accounts, Facebook announced that it had removed 513 Pages, Groups and accounts connected to Iran for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior.
Facebook found that many of these accounts were impersonating actual political groups and posing as legitimate media organizations.Many of the stories posted by these accounts attempted to inflame tensions between India and Pakistan as well as Israel and Palestine.
Other tops that were frequently posted about include the conflicts in Syria and Yemen, the crisis in Venezuela, and terrorism.
Facebook also shared that it had removed 212 Facebook Pages, Groups and accounts linked to Macedonia and Kosovo for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior. The users behind these accounts shared beauty tips and celebrity news in addition to running pages posing as various political groups in the U.S., UK, and Australia.
In recent months, the social network has discovered multiple instances of Iranian-linked misinformation networks on its platform. Before this most recent purge, Facebook had already removed more than one thousand pages and accounts in total connected to Iran.
Facebook has also had to reckon with fake news in countries like Myanmar and Indonesia, places where the spread of misinformation on the social networks platforms have had deadly consequences.
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