Facebook Removes Accounts Using <br />COVID-19 to Gain Followers The social networking site has removed 1,887 <br />accounts, pages and groups which were tied to Iran, <br />the U.S., Russia and other countries last month. Those accounts, pages and <br />groups misled users about <br />their purpose and identity. Nathaniel Gleicher, <br />Facebook's cybersecurity <br />policy chief, commented. Nathaniel Gleicher, via statement The company has taken down eight networks <br />of fake pages, groups and accounts <br />created before the outbreak.