{"id":15920,"date":"2019-04-01T21:18:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T04:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=15920"},"modified":"2019-04-01T21:18:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T04:18:46","slug":"facebook-cracks-down-on-indian-political-partys-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=15920","title":{"rendered":"Facebook cracks down on Indian political party&#8217;s pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook on Monday removed hundreds of pages connected to India&#8217;s opposition party ahead of the country&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n<p>The social media giant said in a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/fqsrtcqzyddwpcpdwbjyywrryqwldqdffnyzcglndhrbh_dcttcchphftccrtcsgdc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/fqsrtcqzyddwpcpdwbjyywrryqwldqdffnyzcglndhrbh_dcttcchphftccrtcsgdc.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1554263375771000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGzwCEHV6s6uUbgmxOYT1vEtWs0eA\">statement<\/a>\u00a0it removed 687 pages with ties to the IT Cell of the Indian National Congress (INC).<\/p>\n<p>The fake accounts posted &#8220;local news and political issues, including topics like the upcoming elections, candidate views, the INC and criticism of political opponents including the Bharatiya Janata Party,&#8221; the party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While the people behind this activity attempted to conceal their identities, our review found that it was connected to individuals associated with an INC IT Cell,&#8221; Nathaniel Gleicher, head of cybersecurity policy at Facebook, said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>{mosads}The company said 15 more fake accounts were removed for similar behavior were linked to Indian IT firm Silver Touch.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian elections begin April 11 and will end on May 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook on Monday removed hundreds of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15921,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15920\/revisions\/15921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}