Facebook parent company Meta said it shut down thousands of fake Facebook accounts originating from China. These fake account holders posed as US military families and anti-war activists.

Meta shuts down thousands of fake China-based Facebook accounts

Facebook's parent corporation Meta announced on Thursday that it has closed down a network of 4,789 phony Chinese Facebook accounts, which were ostensibly created to divide voters ahead of the 2024 election. This represents the most recent instance of attempted foreign meddling in American politics via social media.

Meta shuts down China-based network of 4800 fake accounts

More than 40 accounts of an Indian firm CyberRoot Risk Advisory were taken down by Meta for providing hacking-for-hire services on its social media platforms. Apart from that, about 900 fake accounts operated from China by an unknown entity on Instagram and Facebook were also removed, Meta said in its Threat Report on the Surveillance-for-Hire Industry released on December 15.

Meta takes down 40 fake accounts of Indian firm, 900 from China for phishing

Billionaire Elon Musk has threatened to cancel the Twitter deal if his demand for data about fake accounts is not fulfilled by the social media giant.

Musk threatens to cancel the Twitter deal as he demands data on fake accounts

With the announcement of the final results of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Civil Services Examination (CSE), congratulatory messages begin to pour in.

After UPSC results’ announcement, numerous fake accounts in toppers’ names surface on social media  

Facebook is struggling to identify and deal with active users creating multiple accounts on its platform, the Wall Street Journal report states, citing internal documents of the social media behemoth.

Facebook struggling to identify multiple account holders: Report

Weeks before the US elections, Twitter has suspended several fake accounts reportedly identifying themselves to be a part of the African American community. These accounts were supporting the US President Donald Trump and had succeeded in garnering several thousand followers in just a few days.

Twitter suspends fake Black accounts supporting Trump

From fake news to fake accounts to 'boost' following of state media - China is trying to build a propaganda network to influence conversations on social media. Palki Sharma Upadhyay tells you more about China's social media propaganda machine.

Gravitas: How China is trying to manipulate social media platforms

Twitter has suspended a fake account which was used by Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to spread false news about India in the Gulf states.

Twitter suspends ISI's fake account being used to spread fake news against India in Gulf countries

Twitter on Friday suspended thousands of accounts which it said were linked "to a significant state-backed information operation" originated in Saudi Arabia. "We are sharing comprehensive data about 5,929 accounts which we have removed for violating our platform manipulation policies," the micro-blogging site said on its public blog post.

Twitter suspends thousands of accounts that were 'linked to Saudi Arabia'

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Facebook said Thursday it took down hundreds of accounts from Iran that were part of a vast manipulation campaign operating in more than 20 countries. The world's biggest social network said it removed 783 pages, groups and accounts "for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behaviour tied to Iran.

Facebook takes down over 700 pages for engaging in Iran-led manipulation campaign

US President Donald Trump complained Friday that Twitter is removing some of his followers and has made it harder to join, an apparent critique of the social network's efforts to weed out fake and abusive accounts.

Trump complains about Twitter removing his followers

Responding to calls for transparency after the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, Facebook said those closures came on top of blocking millions of attempts to create fake accounts every day.

Facebook deletes 583 million fake accounts in first three months of 2018

Indian cricket Hardik Pandya issued an official statement on Wednesday after a local Rajasthan court directed Jodhpur police to file an FIR over a derogatory tweet on Bhimrao Ambedkar

Cricketer Hardik Pandya clarifies on Ambedkar tweet

The move is described as part of a broader effort to rid the leading social network of hoaxes, misinformation, and fake news

Facebook looking at behaviour to weed out fake accounts

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