Facebook has removed hundreds of fake accounts, groups, pages and Instagram profiles to engage in so-called "coordinated inauthentic behaviour.”
The company said in a statement that it deleted 443 Facebook accounts and 125 Instagram accounts in Indonesia, Nigeria, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt.
Nathaniel Gleicher, head of Facebook's cybersecurity policy, said that the "account network" was created "to mislead others about their identity and what they are doing.”