*ISLAMABAD: Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officials said on Mondaythat 8,723 fake accounts on social media platforms were removed so far.*
The intelligence agency officials were briefing to a session of theNational Assembly’s Standing Committee on Information Technology inIslamabad today.
It was told that the FIA cybercrime wing had received overall 29,577complaints regarding social media of which 9,822 related to fake accounts.
15,433 complaints pertain to the Facebook and 6067 for Twitter, FIAofficials said.
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During the session, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) legislator Naz Balochcriticised authorities, saying that many fake social media pages wererunning on her name. She raised questions over miseries of other people ifthe authorities failed to control and shut fake social media accounts of alawmaker.
