Facebook recognized and suspended 17 disinformation networks on its platforms in December, representing its largest month-to-month takedown, the US tech big stated on Tuesday.
The social media firm stated it had suspended a bit of greater than 2,800 accounts and pages on its predominant platform and photo-sharing website, Instagram, for utilizing pretend identities and different types of so-called “coordinated inauthentic behaviour”.
The exercise spanned 11 international locations, together with Argentina, Brazil, Morocco, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. In most of these international locations, the networks have been centered on forthcoming elections and run by home teams, Facebook stated.
“Deceptive campaigns like these raise a complex challenge by blurring the line between healthy public debate and manipulation,” the corporate stated in a blog post.
Three of the networks introduced on Tuesday have been first uncovered final month and utilized by rival French and Russian teams to unfold competing narratives within the Central African Republic forward of the nation’s parliamentary election.
Facebook’s operations chief Sheryl Sandberg stated on Monday the corporate had no plans to elevate its block on the accounts of US President Donald Trump because it clamped down on a deceptive phrase that has turn out to be a rallying cry for Trump’s supporters.
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