Meta says it has disrupted more than 3.7 million scam-linked accounts, pages and other content this year, using information provided by the Singapore Police Force (SPF). Meta describes the action as moving beyond removing individual accounts to dismantling broader scam “ecosystems,” including so-called “shell pages.”
Meta and SPF have an information-sharing partnership in place for about two years, which Meta says helps its investigators identify and dismantle scam networks. At a media briefing, Meta executives said that between January and June, more than 113,000 entities and pages related to fraud and scams were removed on Facebook and Instagram. They also said Meta disrupted more than 33,600 entities and pages in June, linked to scammers targeting families during the upcoming school holiday period. In July, Meta took action against more than 3.6 million entities and pages, most of which were shell pages.
Across the outlets, the figures and the partnership framework are consistent, with both focusing on the scale of takedowns and Meta’s stated shift toward dismantling networks rather than only removing single accounts.
