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Facebook has taken down 185 accounts and groups engaged in coordinated information operations on behalf of the Thai military, the tech behemoth said on Wednesday, the latest example of a Southeast Asian government manipulating social media to political ends.
The social media firm stated that the accounts were part of a total of 915 Facebook accounts and 68 pages based in Thailand, Russia, Morocco, and Iran that were removed for violating its policy on “coordinated inauthentic behavior.”
In Thailand, the company removed 77 accounts, 72 pages, and 18 groups on Facebook, as well as 18 accounts on Instagram. As Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s Head of Cybersecurity Policy, told Reuters, “This is the first time that we’ve attributed one of our takedowns to links to the Thai military.”
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