08 We removed 2 Facebook Pages and 22 Instagram accounts for violating our policy against​ ​foreign interference​ which is​ ​coordinated inauthentic behavior​ on behalf of a foreign entity. This small network was in the early stages of building an audience and was operated by individuals — some wittingly and some unwittingly — from Mexico and Venezuela. It primarily targeted the US. This network began creating accounts in April 2020. The individuals behind this activity took steps to conceal their coordination and who is behind this network. Some of the people managing these accounts and Pages claimed to work for a Poland-linked firm Social CMS, which doesn’t appear to exist. They used fake accounts to create fictitious personas and post content. ​Some of these accounts posed as Americans supporting various social and political causes and tried to contact other people to amplify this operation’s content. ​These accounts followed, liked and occasionally commented on others’ posts to increase engagement on their own content. The people behind this activity posted in Spanish and English about news and current events in the US including memes and other content about humor, race relations and racial injustice, feminism and gender relations, environmental issues and religion. ​A small portion of this content included memes posted by the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA) in the past. They reused content shared across internet services by others, including screenshots of social media posts by public figures. We began this investigation based on information about this network’s off-platform activity from the FBI. Our internal investigation revealed the full scope of this network on Facebook. OCTOBER 2020 COORDINATED INAUTHENTIC BEHAVIOR REPORT