Meta Suspends Thousands of Accounts for ‘Spying’

Social media platforms are at the center of many of our lives. However, the problems of these platforms regarding user privacy are increasing day by day. Now based in the USA Meta (formerly Facebook) announced that more than a thousand accounts were suspended due to the detection of users being tracked.

In the statements made by Facebook’s umbrella company Meta, 50 thousand users on social media platforms said,espionage’ It was stated that his activities were exposed and monitored. The US-based giant company is related to these detected activities. 1,500 accounts suspended explained.

1,500 accounts suspended

In the statements made by Meta, on social media platforms owned by the company, 50 thousand people It has been announced that it is being watched by companies doing ‘spying’. The company added that these 50 thousand users were informed about the espionage they were exposed to. After that, it was stated that 1,500 accounts linked to these activities were suspended for violating the rules.

According to the giant company’s statements, companies that continue their ‘espionage’ activities; North Macedonia, Israel and India in countries such as In addition, there is a group operating in this way in China; However, it was reported by Meta that the identity of the people in this group has not yet been determined. According to officials, these companies and groups spread around the world and aimed to gather information by tracking users in more than 100 countries.

Spyware is used

In Meta’s statements, it was noted that users living in the USA, New Zealand, Mexico, Poland and Hong Kong were most affected by these activities. Authorities say that these malicious companies access their victims with the help of fake accounts and spyware it thinks it’s trying to track users by installing it.

WhatsApp, which was previously affiliated with Meta, was also an Israel-based software company for such a reason. to NSO had sued. In the lawsuit filed, NSO’s ‘Pegasus’ It was stated that the espionage software named was used to monitor people. NSO, on the other hand, denied these allegations and said that Pegasus was used to fight terrorism. Due to these increasing pressures, the news that Pegasus would be disabled had started to spread recently.