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Friday, February 1, 2019

Facebook removed hundreds of accounts and pages linked to Iran

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Facebook has removed nearly 800 fake accounts, pages and groups its security researchers say were linked to Iran.

The accounts, which were in many cases made to look like local news organizations, engaged in "coordinated inauthentic behavior," according to Facebook and had accumulated more than 2 million followers and hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram.

As with previous mass takedowns tied to Iran, Facebook's head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, was quick to caution that though the accounts originated in Iran, the company hasn't been able to definitively say whether or not it was part of a state sponsored campaign. Read more...

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from Mashable http://bit.ly/2UxEByY

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