Meta removes 162 accounts with ‘links to Hamas’

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Meta – Facebook’s parent company – has removed 141 Facebook accounts and 21 Instagram accounts allegedly linked to Hamas for violating its policy against “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” (CIB), the social media firm said in its annual ‘Adversarial Threat Report’ on Wednesday. The company said the network of accounts originated in the besieged Gaza Strip and primarily targeted people in Palestine, and to a much lesser extent in Egypt and Israel. Nathaniel Gleicher, Head of Cybersecurity Policy at Meta, wrote: “We found this activity as part of our internal investigation into suspected coordi…

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