Facebook has alleged that one of south-east Asia’s biggest telecoms providers used tactics typical of Russian trolls to discredit rivals, in one of the first takedowns of so-called commercial disinformation from its platform. The world’s largest social media platform said on Wednesday that it had banned a network of two dozen fake pages and accounts […]
Facebook accuses telecoms groups of disinformation tactics
February 18, 2020 by Thiha
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Facebook takes down more Myanmar accounts over military links
December 21, 2018 by Thiha
Facebook Inc (FB.O) has removed hundreds of additional accounts, pages and groups in Myanmar from its social networks after discovering what it called “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” and links to the country’s military. The social media giant had previously removed accounts, including that of Myanmar’s army chief, after criticism it had failed to act on hate […]
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