Facebook bans hundreds of Boogaloo accounts, pages for promoting violence

Facebook has removed a network of accounts, Groups and Pages related to a US-based anti-government network called Boogaloo.

Calling it a violent organization, the social network said it has banned the network from its platform and will remove content praising, supporting or representing it.

The company removed 220 Facebook accounts, 95 Instagram accounts, 28 Pages and 106 groups that were associated with the network.

"We have also removed over 400 additional groups and over 100 other Pages for violating our Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy as they hosted similar content as the violent network we disrupted but were maintained by accounts outside of