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 ...

LAGOS, Nigeria — Meta has removed about 63,000 Instagram accounts registered in Nigeria connected to sextortion scams, the social media company said Wednesday. They included one network of 2,500 ...

Meta has taken down tens of thousands of Instagram accounts from Nigeria as part of a massive crackdown on sextortion scams. The accounts primarily targeted adult men in the United States, but ...

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has intensified its crackdown on inauthentic activity across its social media platforms, unveiling the removal of ...

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

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 “pig-b ...

Meta has taken down tens of thousands of Instagram accounts from Nigeria as part of a massive crackdown on sextortion scams. ... Meta takes down 63,000 Instagram accounts linked to extortion scams.

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 ...

They included one network of 2,500 accounts that were linked to a group of about 20 people. Meta said it also removed more than 7,000 Facebook accounts, pages and groups also in Nigeria that were ...

LAGOS, Nigeria — Meta has removed about 63,000 Instagram accounts registered in Nigeria connected to sextortion scams, the social media company said Wednesday. They included one network of 2,500 ...