Facebook tackles deepfake spread and troll farms in latest moderation push

Facebook has removed a troll farm, spreaders of misinformation, and creators of deepfake images in its latest moderation efforts. The company's latest Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior (CIB) report, published this week (.PDF), lists Facebook's most recent efforts to reduce coordinated, inauthentic behavior across the network. According to the March CIB report, Facebook investigated and wiped out a "long-running" troll farm located in Albania. The troll farm's members primarily targeted an Iranian audience and are thought to have ties to Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK), a political-militant group made up of several thousand members. MEK was exiled to Albania in the 1980s and now appears to be running a network made up of both genuine and fake accounts to spread information that is critical of the Iranian government and that praises MEK's activities.