Social networks turned their attention to Bangladesh this week, as both Facebook and Twitter announced the removal of pages and accounts engaging in what both companies called coordinated behavior in that country.
Facebook head of cybersecurity policy Nathaniel Gleicher revealed in a Newsroom post that a tip from a threat intelligence company Facebook works with, Graphika, led to the removal of nine pages and six accounts.
Gleicher said the pages were designed to look like independent news outlets, and they posted pro-government and anti-opposition content, adding that some 11,900 people followed at least one of the removed pages, and about $800 was spent on advertising on the social network between July 2017 and this past November.
He added that Facebook shared its findings with the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensics Research Lab.
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