Facebook also issued several statements regarding its efforts to remove
“coordinated inauthentic behavior,” to protect elections in, for example,
Ukraine,33 Israel,34 India, and Pakistan35 and targeting fake accounts
originating from Russia36 and Iran.37 These posts explain how the platform
identiﬁes inauthentic behavior, what patterns it has found, and what removal
decisions it made including examples as well as aggregate data.

Cloudﬂare, a web infrastructure company, published a particularly
inﬂuential blog post about content moderation in the aftermath of the
Charlottesville riots of August 11, 2018. It explained why the company had
decided to terminate its services to The Daily Stormer, a white supremacist
website. The author, CEO Matthew Prince, was remarkably self-critical and
highlighted the “the risks of a company like Cloudﬂare getting into content
policing” (Cloudﬂare 2017).
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