By Elizabeth Culliford

(Reuters) – Meta, the Facebook owner, has taken down hacking campaigns and influence networks, as well as scam operations, during the conflict in Ukraine. According to a Thursday report by the company, the social media giant also stated that it is reviewing further steps to correct misinformation coming from Russian government websites.

Meta’s president for global affairs Nick Clegg said, “We are continually reviewing our policies, based upon the evolving situation at the ground, and we are active now reviewing additional steps in order to address misinformation, hoaxes, and coming from Russian Government pages,” during a telephone call with reporters.

Russia faced off against big tech firms to manage online information flows following its February 24 invasion of Ukraine, which Moscow describes as a “specially military operation”. The Russian government has blocked Instagram (NASDAQ:) as well as Facebook (NASDAQ:). It also slowed down Twitter’s service. Twitter stated this week that it would not recommend or amplify Russian accounts to its users.

Meta’s first quarterly adversarial threat reports stated that government-linked agents from Russia and Belarus were involved in cyber espionage, covert online influence operations and covert cyber spying. This included an influence operation tied to the Belarusian KGB.

According to the report, there were other attempts by networks that it had already disrupted. This included further efforts from Ghostwriter, a threat actor who attempted to hack Facebook accounts belonging to dozens of military officers in Ukraine.

Meta reported that it also deleted a network consisting of around 200 accounts from Russia. This was to report falsely people in Ukraine and Russia for violating such things as bullying or hate speech.

Meta took down the mass reporting in March through a Facebook group devoted to cooking.

Meta also stated that it removed thousands of accounts, groups and pages trying to take advantage of the war in Ukraine. They were using this to drive people to advertisements-laden websites and sell them products. The company claimed that scammers from all over the globe had used techniques such as stream live-gaming or reposting popular content, which included videos of people from Ukraine, to make it appear they were updating the public on the situation.

Meta described other actions, including removal of cyberespionage operations in Iran and influence campaigns in Brazil that were posing as environmental activists to defend deforestation (NASDAQ:) and in the Philippines where a network claimed credit for defacing and taking down news sites.