Facebook deletes 103 pages, groups and accounts linked to Pakistan army’s media wing

Facebook has taken down 103 “assets” — pages, groups and accounts — linked to employees of Pakistan Army’s media wing and involved in “coordinated inauthentic behaviour”, the social media giant said on Monday.

The company — which shared details on “four separate, distinct and unconnected” takedowns linked to both Pakistan and India — said it had removed the pages, accounts and groups set up by the networks “for violating Facebook’s policies on coordinated inauthentic behaviour or spam”.

“Today we removed 103 pages, groups and accounts for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behaviour on Facebook and Instagram as part of a network that originated in Pakistan,” said a statement issued by Nathaniel Gleicher, the company’s head of Cybersecurity Policy.