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Facebook and Twitter removes over 600 fake accounts for a reason that will shock you!

Speed News Desk 22 August 2018, 13:55 IST

Facebook and Twitter removes over 600 fake accounts for a reason that will shock you!

Facebook has taken a big decision on the FB users account. Yes, FB has removed various pages and content which is targeting people in the Middle East, Latin America, UK and the US.

According to the Facebook, it has removed 652 pages, groups and accounts which had content originating in Iran and Russia for ‘coordinated inauthentic behaviour’.

After Facebook, Twitter also announced that it had also removed 284 accounts and also said that many of the delete accounts were belong from Iran.

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The decision was taken after a day when Microsoft said that it had thwarted Russian cyber-attacks against US conservative groups.

Earlier on Tuesday, Facebook said that it had found some multiple accounts that were displaying ‘inauthentic behaviour’ which were also linked to a campaign that originated in Iran and Russia.

According to the reports of BBC, ‘We ban this kind of behaviour because we want people to be able to trust the connections they make,’ the company said in a statement.

However, the investigation is still in progress. As per the social media company, it is believed that the campaign aimed at targeting the people across the multiple internet services in the Middle East, Latin America, US and the UK.

Earlier on Monday, Microsoft said Russian hackers had tried to steal data from political organisations, including the International Republican Institute and the Hudson Institute think tanks.

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