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Six Networks in Eight Months: What Facebook and Twitter Removed

Assets removed in each network on Meta platforms, and who the platform linked them to

About 3,050 accounts, pages and groups on Meta platforms and 2,541 accounts on Twitter, three Egyptian marketing companies and a newspaper, and a single sentence about "direction from the government"
Facebook accountsPagesGroupsInstagram accounts

Who each platform linked the network to

Aug 2019 · Facebook

New Waves (Egypt) and Newave (UAE)

Companies

Oct 2019 · Facebook

Charles Communications, MintReach and Flexell

Companies

Oct 2019 · Facebook

Egyptian newspaper El Fagr

Newspaper

Feb 2020 · Facebook

New Waves and Flexell

Companies

Mar 2020 · Facebook

Maat, an Egyptian marketing company

Company

Apr 2020 · Twitter: 2,541 accounts

El Fagr network: "taking direction from the Egyptian government"

Government

In all four Facebook announcements the networks were attributed to companies, not the state; the only exception came from Twitter

Source: Meta coordinated inauthentic behaviour reports (August and October 2019, February and March 2020); Twitter (April 2020); totals calculated by Zawia3