We’re constantly working to find and stop coordinated campaigns that seek to manipulate
public debate across our apps. In 2019 alone, we took down over 50 networks worldwide for
engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB), including ahead of major democratic
elections.
These efforts are led by a cross-disciplinary team focused on finding and disrupting both the
most sophisticated influence operations aimed to manipulate public debate as well as high
volume inauthentic behaviors like spam and fake engagement. Over the past several years, our
team has grown to over 200 people with expertise ranging from open source research, to
threat investigations, cyber security, law enforcement and national security, investigative
journalism, engineering, product development, data science and academic studies in
disinformation.
You can find more information about our previous enforcement actions here.
PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT
Over the past three years, we’ve shared our findings about coordinated inauthentic behavior
we detect and remove from our platforms. As part of regular CIB reports, we’re sharing
information about all networks we take down over the course of a month to make it easier for
people to see progress we’re making in one place.
WHAT IS CIB?
While we investigate and enforce against any type of inauthentic behavior — including fake
engagement, spam and artificial amplification — we approach enforcement against these
mostly financially-motivated activities differently from how we counter foreign interference or
domestic influence operations. We routinely take down less sophisticated, high-volume
inauthentic behaviors like spam and we do not announce these enforcement actions when we
take them.
APRIL 2020 COORDINATED INAUTHENTIC BEHAVIOR REPORT