The social-networking behemoth announced it had removed 2,632 Facebook pages, Groups and accounts. Most of the accounts were removed for spamming.
The network of fake accounts paid roughly $15,000 to purchase Facebook ad space, with the first advertisement running in December 2013 and the last publishing in February. The company says about 1.4 million accounts followed one or more of these pages.
"We are constantly working to detect and stop this type of activity because we don’t want our services to be used to manipulate people," Facebook said in a blog post. After receiving mounting criticism for years about privacy and spreading misinformation, Facebook began its targeted attack on what it calls"coordinated inauthentic behavior" in 2018.
this term as a network of pages or people work together to mislead others about"who they are or what they're doing."
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