Meta is intensifying its crackdown on unoriginal content on Facebook to promote authentic creators. Following YouTube's ...

According to Meta, the recent takedowns included 2,500 accounts that were linked to a group of about 20 people who worked together to carry out sextortion scams. The company also took down ...

Meta has taken down tens of thousands of accounts that were used for “sextortion” scams. They were part of a huge pattern of accounts – many located in Nigeria – that look to scam people ...

The social media owner announced it has taken down thousands of accounts in Nigeria that were linked to financial sexual extortion scams.

To thwart one of the fastest-growing and most sophisticated online scam industries, Meta Platforms Inc. today said it has removed about 2 million accounts related to investment scams known as ...

Meta has taken down tens of thousands of Instagram accounts from Nigeria as part of a massive crackdown on sextortion scams.

Meta takes down thousands of Facebook, Instagram accounts running sextortion scams In January, the FBI warned of a “huge increase” in sextortion cases targeting children.

Meta said Wednesday that it has taken down about 63,000 Instagram accounts in Nigeria running sexual extortion scams and has removed thousands of Facebook groups and pages that were trying to ...