The individuals behind this activity used a combination of fake accounts and authentic accounts of local nationals in Madagascar and Mozambique to manage Pages and Groups, and post their content. Today, we removed 35 Facebook accounts, 53 Pages, seven Groups and five Instagram accounts that originated in Russia and focused on Madagascar, the Central African Republic, Mozambique, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire and Cameroon. That means building better technology, hiring more people and working closer with law enforcement, security experts and other companies. We’re committed to continually improving to stay ahead. We are making progress rooting out this abuse, but as we’ve said before, it’s an ongoing challenge. In each of these cases, the people behind this activity coordinated with one another and used fake accounts to misrepresent themselves, and that was the basis for our action. We’re taking down these Pages, Groups and accounts based on their behavior, not the content they posted. We’re constantly working to detect and stop this type of activity because we don’t want our services to be used to manipulate people.
We have shared information about our findings with law enforcement, policymakers and industry partners. Although the people behind these networks attempted to conceal their identities and coordination, our investigation connected these campaigns to entities associated with Russian financier Yevgeniy Prigozhin, who was previously indicted by the US Justice Department. Each of these operations created networks of accounts to mislead others about who they were and what they were doing. They originated in Russia and targeted Madagascar, Central African Republic, Mozambique, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Sudan and Libya.
Today, we removed three networks of accounts, Pages and Groups for engaging in foreign interference - which is coordinated inauthentic behavior on behalf of a foreign actor - on Facebook and Instagram. By Nathaniel Gleicher, Head of Cybersecurity Policy
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