Facebook weeds out accounts with dodgy links in India and Pakistan

New Delhi/Islamabad — Facebook has removed 712 accounts and 390 pages in India and Pakistan because of “inauthentic behaviour” and spamming, it said on Monday, much of it linked to India’s main opposition Congress party days before elections and Pakistan’s military.

Among the most significant removals, Facebook said it took down 549 accounts and 138 pages linked to India’s Congress for “co-ordinated inauthentic behaviour”. Facebook said it had also banned some accounts linked to an Indian company “associated with” a mobile app promoted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party .

“We didn’t find any links between the campaigns we’ve removed today, but they used similar tactics by creating networks of accounts to mislead others,” Nathaniel Gleicher, head of cybersecurity policy at Facebook, said in a statement. The action against accounts linked to India’s Congress marks a rare move by Facebook against a prominent political party in a country where it has more than 300-million users, the highest in the world.

Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)

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