Disinformation on Facebook

How state actors weaponise social networks

Methodology: Over the past four years, Facebook security teams have identified and removed over 150 networks for violating their policy on coordinated inauthentic behaviour (CIB). The CIB policy was a major piece of Facebook’s broader security strategy on influence operations (IO), developed in response to foreign interference by Russian actors in 2016. Since then, Facebook has investigated and disrupted operations around the world. These public enforcements paint a global picture of IO.
Source: Facebook (2021). Threat report: the state of influence operations 2017-2020
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