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Facebook removes accounts tied to Iranian exile group
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Apr 6, 2021 at 4:59 pm EDT
SAN FRANCISCO Facebook said Tuesday it has removed hundreds of fake accounts linked to an Iranian exile group and a troll farm in Albania.
The accounts posted content critical of Iran’s government and supportive of Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, a dissident group known as MEK. In many cases, the Facebook and Instagram accounts used fake profile names and photos.
Facebook determined the accounts were being run from a single location in Albania by a group of individuals working on behalf of MEK. Facebook found other telltale clues suggesting a so-called troll farm, in which workers are paid to post content, often misinformation, to social media.
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Facebook took down more than 1,000 fake accounts in March, including a few hundred that were tied to a troll farm in Albania. The company shared the takedowns as part of its
monthly report on coordinated inauthentic behavior on the platform.
In its report, Facebook named 14 different networks of fake accounts that were removed during the month of March. The fake accounts originated in a number of countries, including Iran, Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Egypt, Israel, Benin, Georgia, Comoros and El Salvador.
The company notes that most of these weren’t particularly successful, and many of the accounts were removed before they could amass a large following. “This is an ongoing pattern we have seen where we see threat actors continuing to try to use these techniques to manipulate public debates on our platforms, and off our platform more broadly on the internet,” Facebook’s Head of Security Policy Nathaniel Gleicher said during a call with reporters. �
Facebook removes accounts tied to Iranian exile group
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