Facebook Details Takedowns of Fraudulent Users
Facebook took down coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB), brigading and mass reporting operations from China, Palestine, Poland, Belarus, Vietnam, Italy and France, Meta said Wednesday in an end-of-year threat report. The report came as Facebook was the primary focus of a…
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House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on possible legislation to tighten oversight of social media companies(see 2112010058). Meta said it removed a network of accounts in Vietnam that were falsely reporting activists and other critics of the Vietnamese government in an attempt to have them removed from the platform. It said it removed a network of accounts from Italy and France that targeted medical professionals, politicians and journalists with mass harassment involving vaccinations and said it removed an array of Facebook accounts, groups, pages and Instagram accounts for CIB tied to organizations including Hamas, the Belarusian KGB and Chinese information security firm Sichuan Silence Information Technology. Meta said it's expanding its CIB archive to more researchers worldwide over the next several months.