Facebook IDs a new influence campaign before 2018 midterm elections
https://www.cnet.com/news/report-facebook-has-idd-a-new-threat-to-the-2018-midterm-elections/
Facebook has discovered a new campaign of "inauthentic behavior" that's used dozens of Facebook pages and accounts, and $11,000 worth of ads, to promote political causes prior to the US midterm elections, the social network said Tuesday.
In all Facebook said it shut down and removed 32 accounts and pages. Those include eight pages and 17 profiles on Facebook, as well as seven accounts on Instagram, which Facebook owns. In all, 290,000 accounts followed at least one of the pages, which had names like "Aztlan Warriors," "Black Elevation" and "Resisters."