Facebook Removes Accounts Using
COVID-19 to Gain Followers The social networking site has removed 1,887
accounts, pages and groups which were tied to Iran,
the U.S., Russia and other countries last month. Those accounts, pages and
groups misled users about
their purpose and identity. Nathaniel Gleicher,
Facebook's cybersecurity
policy chief, commented. Nathaniel Gleicher, via statement The company has taken down eight networks
of fake pages, groups and accounts
created before the outbreak.