bdnews24.com :
Facebook has taken down nine pages and six accounts for their coordinated inauthentic behaviour on its platform in Bangladesh, with “bdsnews24” topping the list.
The webpage of “bdsnews24” appears to be like bdnews24.com, just with an extra letter in the URL and the logo.
The others include “BBC Bangla” and “newsdinraat24”.
Through investigation, which began in part based on a tip from Graphika, a threat intelligence company that Facebook works with,
The social media giant discovered that these pages were “designed to look like independent news outlets and posted pro-government and anti-opposition content”, Nathaniel Gleicher, head of Facebook cybersecurity policy, said in a statement on Thursday.
“Our investigation indicates that this activity is linked to individuals associated with the Bangladesh government.
“This kind of behaviour is not allowed on Facebook under our misrepresentation policy because we don’t want people or organisations creating networks of accounts to mislead others about who they are, or what they’re doing,” Gleicher added.
Facebook has taken down nine pages and six accounts for their coordinated inauthentic behaviour on its platform in Bangladesh, with “bdsnews24” topping the list.
The webpage of “bdsnews24” appears to be like bdnews24.com, just with an extra letter in the URL and the logo.
The others include “BBC Bangla” and “newsdinraat24”.
Through investigation, which began in part based on a tip from Graphika, a threat intelligence company that Facebook works with,
The social media giant discovered that these pages were “designed to look like independent news outlets and posted pro-government and anti-opposition content”, Nathaniel Gleicher, head of Facebook cybersecurity policy, said in a statement on Thursday.
“Our investigation indicates that this activity is linked to individuals associated with the Bangladesh government.
“This kind of behaviour is not allowed on Facebook under our misrepresentation policy because we don’t want people or organisations creating networks of accounts to mislead others about who they are, or what they’re doing,” Gleicher added.
