Meta has taken down tens of thousands of accounts that were used for “sextortion” scams. They were part of a huge pattern of accounts – many located in Nigeria – that look to scam people ...

Meta detailed the takedowns in its latest report on coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB). The cluster of fake accounts was relatively small — 33 Facebook accounts, four Instagram profiles, six ...

Meta has taken down tens of thousands of Instagram accounts from Nigeria as part of a massive crackdown on sextortion scams. The accounts primarily targeted adult men in the United States, but ...

LAGOS, Nigeria — Meta has removed about 63,000 Instagram accounts registered in Nigeria connected to sextortion scams, the social media company said Wednesday. They included one network of 2,500 ...

Meta is intensifying its crackdown on unoriginal content on Facebook to promote authentic creators. Following YouTube's ...

Facebook’s parent company Meta announced Wednesday that it has taken down a network of more than 100 China-based accounts that posed as organizations in the US and Europe and pushed pro-Beijing ...

Since the ban, Meta representatives say they have taken down 750 assets associated with the Proud Boys, including accounts, pages, groups, and events. MORE: New indictment of Proud Boys leader in ...

The company said it took down more than 7,700 Facebook accounts, over 950 Facebook pages, 15 groups and 15 Instagram accounts that were part of “what appears to be the largest known cross ...

Meta has taken down tens of thousands of Instagram accounts from Nigeria as part of a massive crackdown on sextortion scams. ... Meta takes down 63,000 Instagram accounts linked to extortion scams.

Meta said Wednesday that it has taken down about 63,000 Instagram accounts in Nigeria running sexual extortion scams and has removed thousands of Facebook groups and pages that were trying to ...

They included one network of 2,500 accounts that were linked to a group of about 20 people. Meta said it also removed more than 7,000 Facebook accounts, pages and groups also in Nigeria that were ...