Facebook Removes Dozens of Accounts Linked to Bolsonaro
- Pages linked to employees of Brazil’s president and his sons
- Removal part of “inauthentic coordinated behavior” crackdown
Senator Flavio Bolsonaro and his brother Eduardo Bolsonaro.
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Facebook Inc. has removed dozens of pages linked to Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro and his sons for violating the platform’s rules regarding fake accounts.
The measure announced on Wednesday is part of global efforts to purge inauthentic accounts that the tech company said were working together to mislead users about who they were and what they were doing. In Brazil, Facebook said it identified a network of accounts linked to employees of the Bolsonaros that worked to “create fictitious personas posing as reporters, post content, and manage pages masquerading as news outlets.”