Facebook, Twitter sucked into India-Pakistan information war

M Hanzala Tayyab, a social media campaigner and cyber analyst, works on computer at a local cafe in Islamabad, Pakistan on March 13, 2019.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.

Portraying himself as an online combatant defending Pakistan from India’s attempts to destabilize his country, Tayyab plans to continue playing his role in the broader information war being fought between the nuclear-armed foes. Facebook has been buffeted by controversies across the globe in recent years, including for not stopping the use of fake accounts to try to sway public opinion in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election and Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, and for not acting to stamp out hate speech on its platform that was fueling ethnic violence in Myanmar.

“When we disrupt these networks for coordinated inauthentic behavior, it’s because of their deceptive behavior and not because of the content they’re sharing, or the ideology or political leanings of the people behind them,” Facebook said.Pakistan and India flirted with war in February, when they carried out aerial bombing missions against each other’s territory for the first time since the 1971 war and fought a brief dogfight over the Kashmir skies.

99% Indian social media accounts & media houses spreading fake news but sadly Facebook delete those accounts which shows support to the kashmiris killed by Indian army in IOK

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