Facebook (FB) deleted more than 800 U.S. publishers and accounts for delivering a flood of political messages that consistently violated spam policies, the company announced Thursday.
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The social media giant said the removal came not because of the type of content they posted, but because of the behavior in which they engaged. This included the creation of fake profiles and the spamming of Facebook groups. They did not appear to have ties to Russia, the company said.
"Today, we're removing 559 Pages and 251 accounts that have consistently broken our rules against spam and coordinated inauthentic behavior," Nathaniel Gleicher, the company's head of cybersecurity policy, said in a blog post.
Gleicher said many used fake accounts or multiple accounts with the same names. They posted massive amounts of content across a network of groups and pages to drive traffic to their websites.
Some were ad farms that used Facebook to lure people into bogus forums for legitimate political debate. The accounts and pages were probably domestic actors using clickbait headlines and spam tactics. The key was to pull users to websites to target them with ads, the company said.
Facebook stock closed at 153.35, up 1.3% on the stock market today.
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