Hundreds of accounts linked to an Iranian exile group and a troll farm in Albania have been removed from Facebook, the social media platform said Tuesday.
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The accounts posted content critical of Iran's government and supportive of Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, a dissident group known as MEK. Facebook determined the accounts were being run from a single location in Albania by a group of individuals working on behalf of MEK.
MEK is a leading group opposing the Iranian government. It killed Americans before the 1979 Islamic Revolution and was labeled as a terrorist organization by the State Department until 2012.
The network of fake accounts was most active in 2017 and again in late 2020, Facebook said. In all, more than 300 accounts, pages and groups on Facebook and Instagram were removed as part of the company's action. Around 112,000 people followed one or more of the Instagram accounts.
