Facebook’s crackdown on inauthentic behaviour: 5 facts to know

Facebook recently announced that it had removed or unpublished over 1,000 Facebook pages and Facebook and Instagram accounts from India and Pakistan for ‘inauthentic behaviour’.

Of those removed, 103 accounts were linked to employees working for the Pakistani military establishment’s publicity division (ISPR), 687 pages and accounts were linked to members of an IT Cell of Congress, and 15 pages and accounts linked to an Ahmedabad-based IT firm Silver Touch.

FB has unpublished these accounts and pages for what it calls “coordinated and inauthentic behaviour”. Also, 321 pages and accounts, a majority of which were unofficially posting pro-BJP’s content, were removed for violating Facebook’s policies around spam and misrepresentation.