“We don’t want our services to be used to manipulate people,' Facebook wrote in a blog post.
Facebook and Instagram removed more than 800 political pages, accounts and groups in India and Pakistan for spreading misinformation, propaganda, and posts dividing people along religious lines, the companyThe move comes ten days before India holds major national elections that will determine whether the country’s Hindu nationalist Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, returns to power.
Facebook said that nearly 700 of the pages and accounts were linked to the Indian National Congress — India’s primary opposition party— with more than 206,000 followers. There were 103 pages, groups, and accounts — with a combined reach of 2.8 million — with links to the Pakistani military. And there was a single Facebook page, with more than 2.6 million followers, that spread misinformation about political opponents of Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. The page had links to an Indian IT firm called Silver Touch, a company thatFacebook said that these pages and accounts indulged in"coordinated inauthentic behavior" and violated its policies.
In a tweet from its official Twitter account, the Congress said that it was waiting for Facebook to give it a list of all the pages and accounts that had been taken down, and said that none of its official pages were affected.This is to clarify no official pages run by INC have been taken down. Additionally, all pages run by our verified volunteers are also unaffected. In the mean time, we are awaiting a response from Facebook to provide us a list of all pages/accounts that they have taken down.
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