When Facebook looks for fake accounts spreading disinformation and other harmful content it finds them. The trouble is that it doesn't look often enough. This is probably only the tip of the iceberg - Facebook finds UK-based 'fake news' network https://t.co/wJnfKb1pFY

— Damian Collins (@DamianCollins) March 7, 2019

“The company said it was the first time it had taken down a UK-based group targeting messages at British citizens.” > Facebook discovers UK 'fake news' network https://t.co/j8e07XuAxD

— Martin Bryant (@MartinSFP) March 7, 2019

Just in: Facebook announces it has removed 137 Facebook and Insta accounts, pages and groups in the UK for engaging in ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior’ representing themselves as far-right AND anti-far-right activists https://t.co/N8haGyJzSJ

— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) March 7, 2019

BREAKING: Facebook just announced a takedown in the UK, of pages which posed as far-right groups to then post anti-far-right messages. Some of the content also focused on Pakistan, Kashmir and India. @DFRLab analysis here: https://t.co/gl0VPU9qtP

— Ben Nimmo (@benimmo) March 7, 2019

EXCLUSIVE, PART 2: Facebook Takes Down Fake Network in the United Kingdom https://t.co/xeTMU0QDoJ #UK

— DFRLab (@DFRLab) March 7, 2019

Facebook took them down for coordinated inauthentic behaviour. Some had been posting hate speech and divisive content.

Statement here: https://t.co/EiPEkrZi2N

— Ben Nimmo (@benimmo) March 7, 2019

#BREAK Facebook removes what it calls coordinated inauthentic behavior targeting the UK. Pages run from Romania and... the UK. https://t.co/fM6FjN8rnt

— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) March 7, 2019

More: https://t.co/qdbp9slkMm

— Andrada Fiscutean (@AFiscutean) March 7, 2019

Facebook a șters 31 de pagini ale PSD:

"The Page admins and account owners typically posted about local news and political issues, including partisan news under fictitious bylines in support of the Social... https://t.co/ykI5xnSO4p

— Vlad Ursulean (@ursulean) March 7, 2019

Just in: Facebook announces it has removed 137 Facebook and Insta accounts, pages and groups in the UK for engaging in ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior’ representing themselves as far-right AND anti-far-right activists https://t.co/N8haGyJzSJ

— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) March 7, 2019

Facebook removes disinformation accounts from the UK and Romania https://t.co/18nOfW9g9x by @campuscodi

— ZDNet (@ZDNet) March 7, 2019

This is pretty significant. Yesterday, Facebook announced its discovery of the first UK-based network 'inauthentically' engaged in online influence.

Oh, by the way - they found it by accident. https://t.co/ECNvTznzXp?

— Carl Miller (@carljackmiller) March 8, 2019

"Today we removed 137 Facebook and Instagram accounts, Pages and Groups for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior as part of a domestic-focused network in the UK."#UKEUchallenge @Suewilson91 https://t.co/xZ1tx6FWzL

— UK in EU Challenge (@UKEUchallenge) March 8, 2019

Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior From the UK and Romania | Facebook Newsroom https://t.co/5dEBU6XmDR

— Marius Comper (@bluegod) March 7, 2019