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In October 2019, Facebook removed three networks of accounts for coordinated
inauthentic behaviour, which targeted the US, North Africa, and Latin America
(Gleicher, 2019b).
In February 2020, Facebook removed six accounts and five Instagram accounts for
foreign interference targeting the US (Facebook, 2020a).
In April 2020, Facebook removed 389 accounts, 118 pages, twenty-seven groups and
six Instagram accounts for engaging in foreign interference. Facebook linked this
activity to the IRIB (Facebook, 2020b).
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