Facebook and Instagram are pushing back against a practice known as cybersquatting. Photo: Yui Mok/PA Wire/Zuma Press 11 Comments By Shan Li Shan Li The Wall Street Journal Biography @ByShanLi shan.li@wsj.com Updated March 4, 2019 9:48 a.m. ET
BEIJING— Facebook Inc. FB 0.28% and its photo-sharing app Instagram sued four companies and three people based in China for allegedly creating and selling fake online accounts, likes and followers that were used for misinformation campaigns and other scams.
Starting in 2017, the companies marketed and sold fake accounts in large quantities through six websites with similar domain names