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Facebook and Twitter remove accounts pushing ‘pro-Western narratives’

According to a report released on Wednesday, Facebook and Twitter removed two overlapping sets of accounts during

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the past two months for pushing "pro-Western narratives" in the Middle East and Central Asia.

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According to the social media analytics business Graphika, Twitter and Meta, the company that owns Facebook, took down the accounts over the course of five years through "a series.

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Both Twitter and Meta claimed that the accounts engaged in "coordinated inauthentic behaviour," in violation of its respective policies on "platform manipulation and spam."

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The platforms gave Graphika and the Stanford Internet Observatory access to some of the accounts' activity.

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According to Jack Stubbs, vice president of intelligence at Graphika, "This action constitutes

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the most widespread case of a covert influence effort supporting pro-Western narratives that has been publicly recorded to date."

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The accounts opposed the interests of nations like Iran, China, and Russia while promoting those of the United States and its allies.

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