Facebook finds evidence of US mid-term election interference


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Facebook has identified an ongoing effort to influence the US midterm elections, using inauthentic accounts and pages on the social network.


“We’re still in the very early stages of our investigation and don’t have all the facts – including who may be behind this,” Facebook said on Tuesday in a blog post.



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“It’s clear that whoever set up these accounts went to much greater lengths to obscure their true identities than the Russian-based Internet Research Agency has in the past.”


Facebook said the accounts – eight Facebook pages, 17 Facebook profiles, and seven Instagram accounts – were created between March 2017 and May 2018 and first discovered two weeks ago. Those numbers may sound small, but their influence is spreading: More than 290,000 accounts followed at least one of the suspect pages, the company said.


Like the Russian interference campaign in 2016, the recently detected campaign dealt with divisive social issues.


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