Facebook eradicates 915 malicious accounts and 606 fake accounts from Instagram
February, the social media giant – Facebook removed 915 malicious accounts from its main app and 606 fake accounts from Instagram. The accounts were involved in misleading users.
The social media platform has also removed 86 Pages and 21 Groups last month that are involved in coordinated inauthentic behaviour on behalf of a foreign or government actor and domestic bad actors.
The company said that it has removed 446 Facebook accounts, 4 Pages, 3 Groups and 2 Instagram accounts that originated in Iran and targeted primarily Iraq, and to a lesser extent Israel, the UK, and Afghanistan.
"Our investigation found links to individuals in Tehran. We found this network after reviewing public reporting about a handful of its accounts focused on Israel. Our internal investigation uncovered the broader network," the company said in a statement.
530 Instagram accounts were removed that originated primarily in Russia. The accounts targeted domestic audiences throughout the recent protests in support of Alexey Navalny, an anti-corruption activist and opposition politician in Russia.
"We detected and disabled the vast majority of these accounts, including through automation, as they began posting," Facebook informed.
Facebook eliminated 77 Accounts, 72 Pages, 18 Groups and 18 Instagram accounts, originated in Thailand, which targeted domestic audiences in the Southern provinces of Thailand.
In the investigation links were found to the Thai Military's Internal Security Operations Command.
Facebook also removed 385 Facebook accounts, 6 Pages and 40 Instagram accounts that originated primarily in Morocco and targeted domestic audiences.
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