{"id":10296,"date":"2019-10-04T12:17:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T07:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=10296"},"modified":"2019-10-04T12:17:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T07:17:11","slug":"facebook-removes-coordinated-fake-accounts-in-uae-egypt-nigeria-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/10296","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Removes \u2018Coordinated\u2019 Fake Accounts in UAE, Egypt, Nigeria &#038; Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"lede\">\u00a0Facebook\u00a0 <\/span>Inc has removed several pages, groups and accounts on its platforms from the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Nigeria and Indonesia, citing &#8220;coordinated inauthentic behavior&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The operation in Indonesia involved a network of over 100 fake accounts on Facebook and Instagram posting content in English and Indonesian either in support or criticizing the West Papua independence movement, which is active in the country\u2019s restive easternmost region of Papua.<\/p>\n<p>Further, According to reports, Facebook found evidence some of the accounts had been purchased, with regular changing ownerships, as well as deep links to Egyptian newspaper El Fagr, \u201cwhich is known for its sensationalistic content.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coordinated inauthentic behavior is defined by Facebook as \u201cwhen groups of pages or people work together to mislead others about who they are or what they\u2019re doing,\u201d as outlined by Gleicher, head of cybersecurity policy at Facebook, in a post<\/p>\n<p>Nathaniel Gleicher,said\u00a0 the moves to take down the pages, groups and accounts were based on their behavior and not the content that was posted.<\/p>\n<p>Social media firms such as Facebook and Twitter\u00a0 face increasing scrutiny by governments outside the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, it removed accounts from Iraq, Ukraine, China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Thailand, Honduras and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Facebook\u00a0 Inc has removed several pages, groups and accounts on its platforms from the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Nigeria and Indonesia, citing &#8220;coordinated inauthentic behavior&#8221;. The operation in Indonesia involved a network of over 100 fake accounts on Facebook and Instagram posting content in English and Indonesian either in support or criticizing the West Papua [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,16,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-technology","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10296"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10304,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10296\/revisions\/10304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}