Facebook has shut down hundreds of accounts and pages linked to an Indonesian group accused of spreading hate speech and fake news, the company said Friday.
The world's biggest social network said, cyber group, Saracen engaged in "coordinated abuse of the platform" by operating a network of hoax accounts that mislead online readers about who was behind them.
"The people behind this activity coordinated with one another and used fake accounts to misrepresent themselves, and that was the basis for our action," Facebook's head of cybersecurity policy Nathaniel Gleicher said in a statement.
Saracen gained infamy in Indonesia two years ago when police accused it of deliberately spreading untruths via social media. At least one of its members was jailed following a wide-ranging investigation.
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