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Report September 2025

Submitted
Commitment 16
Relevant Signatories commit to operate channels of exchange between their relevant teams in order to proactively share information about cross-platform influence operations, foreign interference in information space and relevant incidents that emerge on their respective services, with the aim of preventing dissemination and resurgence on other services, in full compliance with privacy legislation and with due consideration for security and human rights risks.
We signed up to the following measures of this commitment
Measure 16.1 Measure 16.2
In line with this commitment, did you deploy new implementation measures (e.g. changes to your terms of service, new tools, new policies, etc)?
No
If yes, list these implementation measures here
As mentioned in our baseline report, a key part of our strategy to prevent interference is working with government authorities, law enforcement, security experts, civil society and other tech companies through direct communication, sharing knowledge and collaboration. 
Do you plan to put further implementation measures in place in the next 6 months to substantially improve the maturity of the implementation of this commitment?
No
If yes, which further implementation measures do you plan to put in place in the next 6 months?
As mentioned in our baseline report, our policies are based on years of experience and expertise in safety combined with external input from experts around the world. We are continuously working to protect the integrity of our platforms and adjusting our policies, tools, and processes to combat disinformation.
Measure 16.1
Relevant Signatories will share relevant information about cross-platform information manipulation, foreign interference in information space and incidents that emerge on their respective services for instance via a dedicated sub-group of the permanent Task-force or via existing fora for exchanging such information.
QRE 16.1.1
Relevant Signatories will disclose the fora they use for information sharing as well as information about learnings derived from this sharing.
As mentioned in our baseline report, a key part of our strategy to prevent interference is working with government authorities, law enforcement, security experts, civil society and other tech companies to stop emerging threats by establishing a direct line of communication, sharing knowledge and identifying opportunities for collaboration. 

In May 2025, we shared our Adversarial Threat Report with information on threat research into new covert influence operations that we took down. We detected and removed these campaigns before they were able to build authentic audiences on our apps. 

Romania: We took action against 658 accounts on Facebook and 14 Pages for violating our policy against coordinated inauthentic behavior. This network originated in and targeted users in Romania across multiple internet services. Fake accounts – some of which were detected and disabled by our automated systems prior to our investigation – were used to manage Pages, drive people to off-platform websites, and comment on posts by politicians and news entities. The majority of these comments received no engagement from authentic audiences. These accounts posed as locals in Romania posting about sports, travel, or local news and had a corresponding presence on YouTube, X, and TikTok, likely to backstop their fictitious personas and entities across the internet in an attempt to make them appear more credible. This campaign showed consistent operational security (OpSec) to conceal its origin and coordination, including by relying on proxy IP infrastructure. 
We found this network as a result of our internal investigation into suspected coordinated inauthentic behavior in the region.
  • Presence on Facebook: 658 accounts on Facebook, 14 Pages.
  • Followers: About 18,300 accounts followed one or more of these Pages
SLI 16.1.1
Number of actions taken as a result of the collaboration and information sharing between signatories. Where they have such information, they will specify which Member States that were affected (including information about the content being detected and acted upon due to this collaboration).
N/A