In its new Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior (CIB) report, Facebook has provided more information about the accounts the company deleted in May. The CIB's goal is to remove deceptive campaigns from around the world from its platform.

As Facebook explained in a post According to its blog, coordinated inauthentic behavior includes groups of accounts and pages that attempt to mislead people about who they really are and what they are doing through fake accounts. When Facebook finds cases of CIB, the company deletes both the fake accounts and the authentic accounts involved in the activity. Cases of CIB conducted on behalf of a government entity (or by a foreign actor) are considered Foreign or Government Interference (FGI). In cases of FGI, Facebook deletes all properties on its platform linked to the campaign, as well as the accounts of the individuals and organizations behind the activity.

In May, Facebook moderators focused on removing two networks of inauthentic behavior stemming from Russia, Sudan and Paquistão.

According to the CIB report, Facebook deleted 83 FB accounts, 30 pages, 6 groups, and 49 Instagram accounts that were operated by Sudanese citizens on behalf of individuals in Russia. The network primarily targeted Sudan, and Facebook discovered its activities through information from an independent researcher.

As for the Pakistan-based network, Facebook deleted 40 FB accounts, 25 pages, 6 groups, and 28 Instagram accounts that primarily targeted Pakistani audiences. While the primary target was Pakistan, these accounts also targeted English-, Arabic-, and Pashto-speaking audiences, the language of Afghanistan. The CIB was linked to individuals working with a Pakistani PR firm called AlphaPro.

Read Facebook's full Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior report here.

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