https://qz.com/1344783/facebook-found-evidence-of-another-coordinated-political-influence-campaign/

(Screenshot/Facebook)Facebook announced that it has discovered a coordinated political influence effort on its platforms ahead of the US midterm elections, today, July 31. It has not linked the campaign to any specific group or country, but said the activity of the suspicious accounts was consistent with that of Russian state actors during the 2016 US election, and, in one case, connected to them. The perpetrators were, however, better at hiding their identities this time around.

Facebook uncovered eight pages, 17 profiles, and seven Instagram accounts, identifying the first of them “about two weeks ago,” Nathaniel Gleicher, the company’s head of cybersecurity policy, outlined in a post. They were all removed following Facebook’s investigation. More than 290,000 users followed at least one of the pages, which were created between March 2017 and May 2018. The pages ran about 150 ads, which cost around $11,000, paid for in US and Canadian dollars.