Kashmir mentioned as separate country in Facebook blog Post

NEW DELHI: 

As Facebook announced it has removed thousands of fake pages and accounts, the social media giant controversially mentioned Kashmir separately along with India and a few other countries.

“Today, we removed 513 Pages, Groups and accounts for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behaviour as part of multiple networks tied to Iran,” Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s Head of Cybersecurity Policy, said in a blog post on Tuesday.

“They operated in Egypt, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Kashmir, Kazakhstan or broadly across the Middle East and North Africa,” he added.

Facebook, which has already been pulled up by the government over the spread of fake news and political interference on its platforms, did not immediately respond to a query sent by IANS.