Facebook removed 687 pages, accounts linked to Congress, BJP ahead of polls
Facebook removed 687 pages, accounts linked to Congress, BJP ahead of polls These include 138 Facebook pages and 549 profiles and have hundreds of thousands of followers Technology :Under about fourteen days before India’s general decisions, Facebook said on Monday it has brought down more than 1,100 pages, gatherings, and records from the stage just as its unit Instagram in India, connected with India’s two biggest ideological groups and Pakistan, as a feature of its bigger endeavor to stem the spread of falsehood. In a blogpost by Nathaniel Gleicher, its head of cybersecurity strategy, Facebook said it expelled 103 pages, gatherings, and records on both Facebook and Instagram for participating in composed ‘inauthentic conduct’ as a feature of a system that began in Pakistan . Further, 687 Facebook pages and records connected to the primary Opposition party Indian National Congress (INC) and 15 Facebook pages, gatherings, and records connec...