CIB networks disrupted by Meta 2021

In 2021, among all the disrupted Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior (CIB) networks removed from Meta platforms during the year, 64 percent targeted domestic audiences, while 21 percent targeted foreign countries. The remaining 15 percent of removed CIB networks were part of disinformation operations targeting audiences both home and abroad. Meta defines Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior as "coordinated efforts to manipulate public debate for a strategic goal where fake accounts are central to the operation."

Nature of Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior (CIB) networks disrupted by Meta platforms from 2017 to 2021

Characteristic	Domestic (home country)	Foreign (countries abroad)	Mixed (both home and abroad)
2021	64%	21%	15%
2020	51%	30%	19%
2019	37%	47%	16%
2018	50%	40%	10%
2017*	0%	100%	0%

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Release date

January 2022

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Worldwide

Survey time period

from 2017 to 2021

Supplementary notes

*According to the source: "Note that in 2017, we removed a single CIB network, from Russia."

Meta defines Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior, or CIB "as coordinated efforts to manipulate public debate for a strategic goal where fake accounts are central to the operation."

Meta further defines Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior, or CIB as "any coordinated network of accounts, Pages, and Groups that centrally relies on fake accounts to mislead Facebook and people using our services about who is behind it and what they are doing."

Meta lists actions associated with Inauthentic Behavior or Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior in its Transparency Center.

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