(2018-07-31) Facebook Finds Evidence Of New Campaign To Influence Midterm Elections

Facebook finds evidence of new campaign to influence midterm elections. Facebook revealed Tuesday that it has found evidence of a coordinated political influence campaign making use dozens of fake accounts and pages on its platform in advance of the November midterm elections. The social media company announced that it has removed 32 pages and accounts involved in “inauthentic behavior” on its platform.

The company told Congress that the efforts could have been conducted by Russia, but that it has not been able to confirm this.

*The company said that “whoever set up these accounts went to much greater lengths to obscure their true identities than the Russian-based Internet Research Agency (IRA) has in the past."

The Kremlin-linked IRA was responsible for a significant amount of election interference efforts in 2016.*