{"id":2304,"date":"2021-12-02T10:55:14","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T09:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/12\/02\/facebook-says-it-removes-accounts-which-targeted-vietnamese-activists-reuters\/"},"modified":"2021-12-02T10:55:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T09:55:14","slug":"facebook-says-it-removes-accounts-which-targeted-vietnamese-activists-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/12\/02\/facebook-says-it-removes-accounts-which-targeted-vietnamese-activists-reuters\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook says it removes accounts which targeted Vietnamese activists &#8211; Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p>Woman holds smartphone with Facebook logo in front of a displayed Facebook&#x27;s new rebrand logo Meta in this illustration picture taken October 28, 2021. REUTERS\/Dado Ruvic\/Illustration<br \/>Dec 1 (Reuters) &#8211; Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/companies\/FB.O\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__medium___1ocDap Text__large___1i0u1F Link__underline_default___MkI7S8\" rel=\"noopener\">(FB.O)<\/a> has removed a network of accounts from its platform which it said targeted Vietnamese activists who were critical of the country&#x27;s government, an official at Facebook&#x27;s parent company Meta said on Wednesday.<br \/>In July, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/how-vietnams-influencer-army-wages-information-warfare-facebook-2021-07-09\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__medium___1ocDap Text__large___1i0u1F Link__underline_default___MkI7S8\" rel=\"noopener\">removed<\/a> a Vietnamese Facebook group called &quot;E47&quot; which mobilised its members to report posts they did not like to Facebook, in an effort to have them taken down. <a href=\"\/world\/asia-pacific\/how-vietnams-influencer-army-wages-information-warfare-facebook-2021-07-09\/\" class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__medium___1ocDap Text__large___1i0u1F Link__underline_default___MkI7S8\"> read more <\/a><br \/>The latest action was taken against a separate group, according to David Agranovich, Facebook&#x27;s head of global threat disruption.<br \/>&quot;What we saw was a network of accounts in Vietnam that was engaged in this kind of coordinated targeting of activists, and other people who publicly criticised the Vietnamese government,&quot; Agranovich told Reuters.<br \/>The attackers used Facebook accounts to submit &quot;hundreds or thousands of reports&quot; against their targets using Facebook&#x27;s built-in reporting tools, Agranovich said of the network, which was also detailed in a report released by Facebook on Wednesday.<br \/>&quot;Many of the operators would use fake accounts, which they would use to pose as their targets, and then they would report the target&#x27;s real account as an impersonating account,&quot; he added.<br \/>Some of the accounts were openly offering the taking down of other Facebook accounts as a commercial service, according to Agranovich.<br \/>&quot;They essentially advertise this kind of abusive reporting service in their actual bios,&quot; he said.<br \/>Unlike in neighbouring China, Facebook is not blocked in Vietnam, where it has around 70 million users and is the country&#x27;s main platform for e-commerce.<br \/>It has also become the main platform for political dissent, however, putting Facebook and the government in a constant tussle over the removal of content deemed to be &quot;anti-state&quot;.<br \/>Vietnam&#x27;s foreign ministry, which handles enquiries to the government from foreign media, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<br \/>Our Standards: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomsonreuters.com\/en\/about-us\/trust-principles.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__medium___1ocDap Text__large___1i0u1F Link__underline_default___MkI7S8\" rel=\"noopener\">The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.<\/a><br \/>Subscribe for our daily curated newsletter to receive the latest exclusive Reuters coverage delivered to your inbox.<br \/>Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world\u2019s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. 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