Facebook removes 115 suspicious accounts ahead of US midterm elections

2018-11-6 13:12

Just before the US midterm elections, Facebook removed a total of 115 accounts it thought that ‘engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior’. The company said US Law enforcement contacted it on Sunday to report suspicious online activity, which they believed was possibly linked to foreign entities.

Today, the social network removed 30 accounts from Facebook and 85 accounts from Instagram. Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy Nathaniel Gleicher said: We immediately blocked these accounts and are now investigating them in more detail. Almost all the Facebook Pages associated with these accounts appear to be in the French or Russian languages, while the Instagram accounts…

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