The newspaper reported on Friday that its parent company Gannett Co asked the FBI to investigate the fake accounts that accounted for half of the newspaper’s Facebook page followers. Facebook purged millions of those fake accounts from USA TODAY and other publishers three weeks ago in the latest salvo in the social media giant’s battle against scammers and spammers. "These appear to be manually created accounts, as opposed to accounts created by software, suggesting somewhere in the world humans are busy setting up these profiles. Many Facebook users in Bangladesh found their accounts closed down following a verification process during the operation. Later, State Minister for Telecom Tarana Halim said the Facebook authorities were closing down fake accounts and pages created using names of Bangladeshi VIPs.

Source: bd News24 May 06, 2017 15:45 UTC