Hundreds of ‘malicious’ Facebook accounts in Philippines taken down

In this file photo taken on November 19, 2021 a picture shows the US online social media and social networking service Facebook's logo on a smartphone screen.

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MANILA, Philippines — Facebook’s parent company Meta announced Thursday that it has taken down hundreds of accounts from the Philippines that were engaged in “malicious activities” on the social media platform ahead of the May elections.

Among those removed from Facebook was a network of pages, groups and accounts maintained by the New People’s Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines.

Along with this, Meta said it has also removed from Facebook a network of over 400 accounts, pages and groups that worked to systematically violate the social media platform’s community standards and evade enforcement.

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