Facebook says it removed more than 300 accounts, pages and groups last month after catching operators misrepresenting themselves in a number of ways. The social media company on Thursday announced it removed 180 Facebook accounts, 170 Instagram accounts, 160 groups and one page for violating company policies around coordinated inauthentic behavior. The activity involved unrelated campaigns targeting elections in France, Egypt and Russian efforts to launder information operations through accounts based in Africa, first detailed last month. It’s the latest in a series of monthly updates from Facebook clarifying the different ways that governments, marketing firms and individual users game the website to try to make money or influence public opinion. Most recently, the company disclosed that Russia’s Internet Research Agency, which U.S. intelligence officials say was dedicated to amplifying divisive social media activity ahead of the 2016 election, had outsourced some of its work to users in Africa. In […]
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