Facebook says it closed accounts, pages with links to Iranian government
Facebook said that it shut down hundreds of accounts and pages promoting Iranian propaganda in its monthly report.
A significant amount of Facebook’s recent anti-misinformation efforts have focused on Iran, the social media giant said in a release today.
Facebook said the activity coming out of Iran had links to Iran’s state broadcaster.
“Our investigation linked this activity to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting Corporation,” Facebook said in a press release. “We found this network as part of our internal investigations into suspected coordinated inauthentic behavior.”
Facebook today released its monthly “Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Report” for April. The report shows Facebook’s efforts to “stop coordinated campaigns that seek to manipulate public debate.” This includes information that is fake, spam and artificially amplified from both state and nonstate actors, according to Facebook.
