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Meta has announced the removal of a network engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior that was operating from Belarus and targeting a Polish audience. An internal investigation identified signs of an organized foreign influence campaign linked to Belarus and Russia, according to the company’s Adversarial Threat Report for the second and third quarters of 2025.
Meta removed four Facebook accounts and 12 Facebook pages, as well as 21 Instagram accounts, for violating the platform’s policies on coordinated inauthentic behavior. Approximately 200 accounts followed one or more of the Facebook pages, and around 3,300 accounts followed one or more of the removed Instagram accounts. The network’s operators spent about 1,800 US dollars, in US dollars and Polish zloty, on Facebook and Instagram advertising to promote content and expand their audience.
The network primarily focused on issues related to Poland’s migration policy and the country’s relations with the European Union and Ukraine.
«We observed that the network’s operators strategically distributed messages focused on Poland’s migration policy, as well as the country’s relations with the European Union and Ukraine. The operation employed sophisticated impersonation techniques: fake accounts ran targeted advertisements falsely presenting themselves as Poland’s ruling Civic Coalition and promoted content about the coalition’s policies that was deliberately designed to appear controversial to opposition audiences.
In addition, the network actively amplified materials from a targeted hack-and-leak campaign against a Polish Member of the European Parliament, demonstrating a combination of information dissemination operations using cyber techniques and manipulative tactics on social media platforms», the report states.