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Facebook removes 2,632 pages, groups, accounts for coordinated inauthentic behaviour

Moscow, Mar 26 (UNI) Facebook on Tuesday announced that it has removed over 2,600 pages, groups and accounts from both Facebook and Instagram for misrepresenting themselves and misleading users about their activities.
"Today we removed 2,632 Pages, Groups and accounts that engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram. The operations we found were connected to Iran, Russia, [North] Macedonia and Kosovo. We didn't find any links between these sets of activities, but they used similar tactics by creating networks of accounts to mislead others about who they were and what they were doing," Facebook said in a statement.
According to Facebook, 513 pages, groups and accounts were linked to Iran-affiliated networks and operated in a whole number of countries or regions, including Egypt, India, Israel, the Kashmir region and the Middle East, among others.
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