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Is Nigeria Next? Fake Facebook Accounts Cleaned Out In Four Countries

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About 300 fake Facebook pages, groups and Instagram accounts have been removed by the tech giant. In its bid to purge its platforms of inauthentic behaviour, it removed accounts from four unconnected campaigns. These accounts originated from Russia, Ukraine, Thailand and Honduras.

 

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Facebook has now removed a total of 1,509 pages, 294 fake accounts and 32 groups from its platforms in the past week. Although, the company said it did not find any links between the banned campaign pages.

 

They are actually all accounts that created networks of accounts to mislead others about what they were about. Apparently, these campaigns also had a following of over 274,000 accounts.

 

This follows Facebook’s latest settlement fine agreement. The tech giant will also pay $5 billion to the Federal Trade Commission for privacy glitches. Furthermore, the American Security and Exchange Commission will get $100 million from Facebook.

 

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Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: Facebook

 

These payouts are following the investigations into the Cambridge Analytica scandal where data was mishandled. The privacy issue affected about 87 million or more Facebook users.

 

Mark Zuckerberg, speaking after the announcement of these fines, said the social network would make some major changes. He called them major structural changes to how it conducts business and builds its products.

 

Amid all these, Facebook still faces the responsibility of convincing the world about its cryptocurrency. The Libra currency currently faces oppositions around the world, and it doesn’t help that fake sites are already trying to scam people.

 

It will be quite interesting when Facebook extends this purge to African countries. Nigerians running fake Facebook and Instagram accounts may have to number their days.

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