In its latest monthly report, Facebook claims to have deleted around 10,000 pages, groups, and accounts from 13 countries, including Morocco, for “coordinated inauthentic behavior.” The purge took place in October.
This operation is part of the fight led by the social network against the campaigns and false profiles that deceptively influence public opinion at home and abroad. The profiles from 13 countries, including Morocco, Georgia, Myanmar, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Iran, Egypt, the United States, and Mexico are among those deleted in October by the social network.
According to Facebook, the operation involves a network of accounts, pages, and groups in Egypt, Turkey, and Morocco linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. It is a radical Islamist group banned in Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia.
In the United States, the deleted accounts are those of supporters of Donald Trump. In early October, hundreds of profiles linked to conservative group Turning Point USA via Rally Forge, an American marketing firm, were removed on the grounds that it sparked and published an avalanche of pro-Trump comments on news articles, resulting in is a violation of Facebook policies.
