[erehweb]

Unlikely that these accounts were run by FB. More likely by other companies with their own objectives, such as creating plausible fake users.

[cyberlab]

> such as creating plausible fake users

Define a 'plausible' user? Facebook just wants your phone number and uses that as the only metric to determine it's a human behind the account. And as we know, there is no shortage of phone numbers to use from places like Twilio where you can mass-generate an army of Facebook users.