

Taking Down Two of the Largest Known Covert Influence OperationsĬhina: We recently took down thousands of accounts and Pages that were part of the largest known cross-platform covert influence operation in the world. Today’s updates are a good window into how this works in practice.

A key lesson for us has been that transparency across our industry has positive cascading effects on our collective ability to respond to new threats – from continuous pressure on malicious groups through takedowns and public exposure to government sanctions as well as stronger product defenses. In the decade since we first began publishing transparency reports, technology companies and researchers have learned a great deal about how online public spaces can be abused by malicious actors. Today’s security and integrity updates provide an under-the-hood view into our defense strategy and the latest news on how we build it into products like our new app Threads and generative AI systems.

We go to great lengths to keep our apps safe for people and help raise our collective defenses across the internet. Rarely, if ever, do today’s online threats target one single technology platform – instead, they follow people across the internet.
