They were removed for violating Facebook’s policy against foreign or government interference.
In the U.S., where he said the “network focused the least and gained almost no following” the accounts posted content both in support of and against presidential candidates Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
About 133,000 accounts followed one or more of the pages, around 61,000 people joined one or more of the groups and about 150 accounts followed one or more of these Instagram accounts. Gleicher said Facebook found the network as part of an internal investigation into suspected coordinated inauthentic behavior in the region and found links to individuals in the Fujian province of China focused primarily on the Philippines and Southeast Asia more broadly, and also on the U.S.
In Southeast Asia, the network focused most of its activity on global news and current events including content supportive of Phillipine President Rodrigo Duterte and his daughter Sarah Duterte’s potential run in the 2022 presidential election and issues relevant to the overseas Filipino workers.
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