Meta removes 3.7 million accounts in West Africa scam crackdown

Tech giant Meta has purged more than 3.7 million accounts, pages, and groups across Facebook and Instagram linked to organized cybercrime networks in West Africa. The unprecedented purge is part of a massive, multi-agency joint operation uniting 15 leading technology firms including Meta, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI with law enforcement bodies from ten nations, led by the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the US Department of Justice.