New Delhi: Under the new IT rules in India, Facebook recently removed more than 30 million posts falling in 10 violation categories from May 15 to June 15 in the country. At the same time, according to the news being quoted by news agency IANS, Facebook has suspended 5,381 malicious accounts, groups, and pages, taking global action from its main network and Instagram. The social media platform had removed eight networks in seven countries. Most of these campaigns targeted people from their own countries. According to sources, around 2,784 Facebook accounts, 206 Instagram Accounts, 2,249 pages, and 142 groups were removed in the month of June.
So many accounts suspended in Iraq and Iran
Facebook suspended 675 Facebook accounts, 16 Pages, and 10 Instagram accounts in Iraq and Iran for allegedly targeting people in Iraq and Al-Maref Radio in Iraq and Alborz Analysis & Development, an IT firm in Tehran were connected. Commenting on this, Facebook said, “We found in our internal investigation that such activities were against our policy.”
Also of people associated with political strategy in Mexico
In Mexico, Facebook removed 1,621 Facebook accounts, 1,795 pages, 75 groups, and 93 Instagram accounts focused on the state of Campeche and associated with people from that state. This included individuals who were working for Worgcorp, a political strategy and public relations firm in Mexico.
Facebook is taking action on such accounts
Facebook said, “We found this activity as part of our internal investigation into suspected coordinated unauthenticated behavior in the region and removed it ahead of the Mexican elections. Groups and Pages are involved that try to mislead people about who they are and what they are doing by relying on fake accounts, then we can directly remove the unauthenticated and authentic accounts involved, both the Page and the group remove.”.
