We’re constantly working to find and stop coordinated campaigns that seek to manipulate
public debate across our apps.
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 our 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?
We view CIB as coordinated efforts to manipulate public debate for a strategic goal where fake
accounts are central to the operation. There are two tiers of these activities that we work to
stop: 1) coordinated inauthentic behavior in the context of domestic, non-government
campaigns and 2) coordinated inauthentic behavior on behalf of a foreign or government actor.
COORDINATED INAUTHENTIC BEHAVIOR (CIB)
When we find domestic, non-government campaigns that include groups of accounts and
Pages seeking to mislead people about who they are and what they are doing while relying on
fake accounts, we remove both inauthentic and authentic accounts, Pages and Groups directly
involved in this activity.
FOREIGN OR GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE (FGI)
If we find any instances of CIB conducted on behalf of a government entity or by a foreign
actor, we apply the broadest enforcement measures including the removal of every on-platform
property connected to the operation itself and the people and organizations behind it.
OCTOBER 2020 COORDINATED INAUTHENTIC BEHAVIOR REPORT