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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Facebook has taken down 185 accounts and groups engaged in an information influencing operation in Thailand run by the military, the company said on Wednesday, the first time it has taken down Thai accounts with ties to the government.<\/p>

FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: The Twitter and Facebook logo along with binary cyber codes are seen in this illustration taken November 26, 2019. REUTERS\/Dado Ruvic\/Illustration<\/figcaption>

The Thailand-based network removed in the latest sweep of \u201ccoordinated inauthentic behaviour\u201d on the platform included 77 accounts, 72 pages and 18 groups on Facebook and 18 accounts on Instagram, Facebook said.<\/p>\n

The company said the accounts were linked to the Thai military and targeted audiences in the southern provinces of Thailand, where conflict has flared on and off for decades as insurgent groups continue a guerrilla war to demand independence.<\/p>\n

Thailand\u2019s military spokesperson could not immediately be reached for comment.<\/p>\n

Some 7,000 people have been killed during the past 15 years as a result of the insurgency in the Malay-speaking, largely Muslim southern region of predominantly Buddhist Thailand.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first time that we\u2019ve attributed one of our takedowns to links to the Thai military,\u201d Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook\u2019s Head of Cybersecurity Policy, told Reuters in a briefing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe found clear links between this operation and the Thai military\u2019s Internal Security Operations Command. We can see that all of these accounts and groups are tied together as part of this operation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The network, mainly active in 2020, used both fake accounts and authentic ones to manage groups and pages, including overt military pages and those that did not disclose their affiliations with the military, Gleicher said.<\/p>\n

POSED AS INDIVIDUALS<\/h2>\n

Some of the fake accounts posed as individuals from Thailand\u2019s southern provinces, Gleicher said, adding that the network had spent about $350 on Facebook and Instagram advertisements.<\/p>\n

Some 700,000 accounts followed one or more of the pages and about 100,000 accounts joined at least one of the groups, he added.<\/p>\n

Gleicher said Facebook took action on the network based on deceptive behaviour and not the content posted, which included support for the military and the monarchy, and allegations of violence and criticism of insurgent groups in southern Thailand.<\/p>\n

The move was Facebook\u2019s second takedown of information influencing operations in Thailand, after one in 2019 involving 12 accounts and 10 pages that used \u201cfictitious personas\u201d.<\/p>\n

In October, Twitter also took down 926 accounts it said were linked to the Thai army that promoted pro-army and pro-government content. The army denied that it was behind the accounts.<\/p>\n

Twitter in November also suspended a Thai pro-royalist account linked to the palace that a Reuters analysis found was connected to thousands of others that spread content in favour of Thailand\u2019s monarchy.<\/p>\n

Facebook on Wednesday said it has taken down four other networks from Iran, Russia and Morocco engaged in coordinated inauthentic behaviour.<\/p>\n

The company said it has removed more than 100 networks engaged in inauthentic behaviour globally in recent years.<\/p>\n

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