According to the Judiciary-run Mizan news agency, Facebook has suspended the official page of the Iranian regime’s Arabic-language television, al-Alam.
According to Facebook, al-Alam did not comply with the company’s policies in terms of promoting the Lebanese Hezbollah and posting photos of its flag and leader, as well as other militias in Yemen. Facebook has imposed severe restrictions on the Tehran-owned network regarding the publication of world news on its page.
In January 2020, following the killing of IRGC-Quds Force leader Qassem Soleimani by the United States, the al-Alam Facebook page was closed for several weeks.
Facebook issued a report Wednesday looking at so-called coordinated inauthentic behavior over the past four years, warning that despite ongoing efforts to identify and remove disinformation networks, there is no let-up in attempts to exploit or weaponize conflict and crisis.
“Threat actors have adapted their behavior and sought cover in the gray spaces between authentic and inauthentic engagement and political activity,” according to the Facebook report, which looked at the more than 150 networks from more than 50 countries that its security teams took down from 2017 to 2020.
“We know they will continue to look for new ways to circumvent our defenses,” the report added, noting disinformation efforts were evenly split between foreign and domestic efforts. …. .
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