Facebook held a press call Thursday afternoon to discuss the removal of 783 pages, groups, accounts and events that originated in Iran, but it wasn’t done.
Shortly thereafter, head of cybersecurity policy Nathaniel Gleicher provided details on a similar initiative in Indonesia.
In a Newsroom post, Gleicher said the social network removed 207 pages, 800 accounts, 546 groups and 208 Instagram accounts.
Indonesian online syndicate Saracen Group was behind all of the removed pages, accounts and groups, which Gleicher said were used to mislead people about who they were and what they were doing.
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