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Taking Action Against Malicious Accounts in Iran

After investigating user reports, our security teams blocked a small cluster of WhatsApp accounts posing as support agents for tech companies.

August 23, 2024August 23, 2024

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Removing More Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior From Iran

We removed accounts, Pages and Groups originating in Iran for misrepresenting themselves on Facebook and Instagram.

May 28, 2019March 24, 2021

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Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior From Israel

We remove Facebook and Instagram accounts, Facebook Pages, Groups and events originating in Israel that were involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior.

May 16, 2019March 24, 2021

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Removing More Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior From Russia

We found two separate, unconnected operations that originated in Russia and used similar tactics.

May 6, 2019March 24, 2021

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Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior and Spam From India and Pakistan

We’ve removed Pages, Groups and accounts for violating Facebook’s policies on coordinated inauthentic behavior or spam.

April 1, 2019March 24, 2021

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Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior From the Philippines

Today we removed 200 Pages, Groups and accounts in the Philippines that were misleading others about who they were and what they were doing.

March 28, 2019March 24, 2021

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Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior from Iran, Russia, Macedonia and Kosovo

We’ve removed Pages, Groups and accounts connected to Iran, Russia, Macedonia and Kosovo.

March 26, 2019March 24, 2021

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Keeping Passwords Secure

As part of a routine security review in January, we found that some user passwords were being stored in a readable format within our internal data storage systems. We have fixed these issues and as a precaution we will be notifying everyone whose passwords we have found were stored in this way.

March 21, 2019November 7, 2019

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Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior From the UK and Romania

Today we removed Pages, groups and accounts that engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram

March 7, 2019March 24, 2021

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Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior From Moldova

We removed Pages and accounts in Moldova for misleading others about who they were and what they were doing.

February 13, 2019March 24, 2021

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What Is Facebook Doing to Address the Challenges It Faces?

We want to share the steps we’ve taken in five key areas.

February 4, 2019November 11, 2019

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