Facebook Removes Accounts Using br COVID-19 to Gain Followers The social networking site has removed 1,887 br accounts, pages and groups which were tied to Iran, br the U.S., Russia and other countries last month. Those accounts, pages and br groups misled users about br their purpose and identity. Nathaniel Gleicher, br Facebook's cybersecurity br policy chief, commented. Nathaniel Gleicher, via statement The company has taken down eight networks br of fake pages, groups and accounts br created before the outbreak.