and public figures. Other campaigns — like the ones from Russia (that we removed in late September) — focused on tricking unwitting freelance journalists into writing on behalf of these operations. Deceptive campaigns like these raise a particularly complex challenge by blurring the line between healthy public debate and manipulation. Our teams will continue to find, remove and expose these coordinated manipulation campaigns, but we know these threats extend beyond our platform and no single organization can tackle them alone. That’s why it’s critical that we, as a society, have a broader discussion about what is acceptable political advocacy and take steps to deter people from crossing the line. As part of our contribution to this conversation, based on the past three years of studying and taking down influence operations, my team has outlined recommendations for regulatory and legislative principles against these deceptive campaigns here. We have shared information about our findings with law enforcement, policymakers and industry partners. We are making progress rooting out this abuse, but as we’ve said before, it’s an ongoing effort. We’re committed to continually improving to stay ahead. What We Found (Note: We’ll update these numbers in the coming days when more data for this reporting period becomes available.) Networks removed October 1-8, 2020: 1. We removed 202 Facebook accounts, 54 Pages and 76 Instagram accounts for violating our policy against coordinated inauthentic behavior. This activity originated in the US and focused primarily on domestic US audiences and also on Kenya and Botswana. (Updated on November 6, 2020 at 9:00AM PT to reflect the latest enforcement numbers.) The people behind this activity used fake accounts — a large portion of which had been automatically removed by our systems — to comment on other people’s content. Many of these accounts used stock profile photos and posed as rightleaning individuals from across the US. In 2018, some of these accounts posed as