Facebook revealed Tuesday that it has found Evidence of a Coordinated Political Influence Campaign making use of Dozens Fake Accounts and Pages on its Platform in Advance of the November 2018 Midterm Elections.
The Social Media Company announced that it has Removed 32 Pages and Accounts across Facebook and Instagram involved in "inauthentic behavior." Facebook is Reportedly working with the FBI on the matter.
Facebook told Lawmakers in a series of Briefings this Week that it had Discovered the Influence Campaign as it Watched for Election Interference efforts. The Company told Congress that the Efforts could have been Conducted by Russia, but that it has not been able to confirm this.
“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 in a Post on Tuesday. “But we are sharing what we know today given the connection between these bad actors and protests that are planned in Washington next week. We will update this post with more details when we have them, or if the facts we have change,” it added.
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. The Group successfully Organized Events intended to sow Discord among the Public, including an Anti-Trump Event attended by Thousands in New York City.
In the Briefings this week, Facebook also said that it had found Attempts to Manipulate its Platform after the Elections, including around the time of the Unite The Right White Nationalist Rally in Charlottesville, Va., last Summer and in regard to the #AbolishICE Hashtag, in line with previous Russian Efforts to not just Influence the Election, but Fan the Flames of Tension around Social Issues in the U.S.
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