Facebook announced the disruption of a major spam operation that had been filling the social network with fake likes and comments.
Shabnam Shaik, a technical program manager on Facebook’s protect and care team, provided the details in a Facebook Security note, saying that the accounts involved were located in countries including Bangladesh, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia:
Today we are taking another step to disrupt a spam operation that we have been combating for six months. It is made up of inauthentic likes and comments that appear to come from accounts located in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and a number of other countries.
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