Facebook has sharpened the axe and removed hundreds of propaganda pages in India and Pakistan. It’s one of Facebook’s biggest culls yet as it tried to rein in false political propaganda. Controversially, Facebook has linked many of these pages to the Pakistan military itself. Other pages were linked to India’s second-largest political party, Indian National Congress. According to Facebook, the pages were reportedly set up and run by fake profiles, which then dispersed “inauthentic” information about the military and politics. Pakistan Military Propaganda? In a post by Facebook’s Head of Cybersecurity Policy, the company confirmed the removal of 103 Pakistan
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