NEW DELHI: Social media giant Facebook on Wednesday edited a blogpost by its head of cybersecurity policy who controversially mentioned Kashmir as a separate entity along with countries India and some other countries. The blogpost, by Nathaniel Gleicher, related to the removal of thousands of fake pages and accounts.

“Today, we removed 513 pages, groups and accounts for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behaviour as part of multiple networks tied to Iran,” Gleicher had said in the blog post on Tuesday. “They operated in Egypt , India, Indonesia , Israel, Italy , Kashmir, Kazakhstan or broadly across the Middle East and North Africa,” he further added.

However, as the error was pointed out on the social media, the company ‘updated’ the post “to delete a reference to ‘Kashmir’ that was incorrectly included in the initial list of countries and regions targeted by the Iranian network.”

The blog also said that some of the axed pages and accounts had posted news stories on Indian politics as well as on the “tensions between India and Pakistan”.

“They posted news stories on current events and frequently repurposed and amplified content from Iranian state media about topics including sanctions against Iran; tensions between India and Pakistan ...,” the blog post noted.

