A new campaign to influence the US elections has been unveiled

32 accounts and pages were removed from Facebook and Instagram because they should have been involved in a "coordinated" attempt to influence public opinion, Facebook revealed Tuesday.

According to the New York Times, the campaign is bound to polarize
political issues. One of them is a new high-level planned event in Charlottesville

Congressmen were recently informed of the situation after the discovery of the campaign two weeks ago.

– Early Stadium

was removed, was created in March 2017, and the latter was created as late as June 2018.

Who is behind the campaign is currently unknown.

Facebook believes seeing the similarity with the campaigns that was leading to Facebook before the 2016 presidential elections, as Russia is suspected of being late.

– We are still at an early stage of our investigation and we do not have all the facts, including with regard to who is behind this, says Facebook.

The company says nothing about whether the accounts were supposed to affect congressional elections in November. However, the time indicates that it was the subject.

The fake pages with the most followers were "Aztlan Warriors", "Black Elevation", "Mindful Being" and "Resisters". At least one of the fake accounts should have been followed by nearly 300,000.

On the accounts and pages, 150 different advertisements were posted, which together cost $ 11,000, which according to Facebook, was paid in US dollars and Canadian

– Attempt to hide tracks

Facebook should have found links between accounts now deleted and previous accounts related to the Russian Internet Research Agency.

The company must have played a central role in the alleged Russian attempt to oppose Hillary Clinton in the US election campaign in 2016.

But those who explain the recent accounts, according to Facebook, have been more careful to conceal their footprints than it was the case in 2016. Among other things, they must have used online phone services, as well as paid third parties to carry out operations of marketing.
on their behalf.

(© NTB)