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Facebook revealed a new coordinated political influence campaign that hosted online information on rallies and other events before the next fall elections in the United States. On Tuesday, Facebook reported 32 pages and suspicious accounts.
"This behavior is not allowed on Facebook because we do not want people or organizations that create account networks to mislead others about who they are and they do it," he said. Facebook manager of operations, Sheril Sandberg.
In total, according to the survey results, Facebook has removed eight public Facebook pages, 17 user profiles and seven accounts on Instagram. The deleted pages and accounts were created between March 2017 and May 2018. The most popular of them was about 300,000 users.As of May 2017, about 30 events were created on the pages The placement of 15 ads was spent $ 11 thousand.The most popular of them subscribed to about 4.7 thousand users.To hide their real names, community administrators used the services of VPN and Intern telephony and and their accounts were paid by third parties.
Adam Schiff, Senior Democrat of the House of Representatives, urged Facebook to continue to identify foreign agents. the fact that such a situation, as in 2016, can be repeated again.
"Today's announcement on Facebook demonstrates what we have been afraid for a long time: malicious foreign actors have distinctive features before
Earlier, US President Donald Trump declared that Russia could again attempt to intervene in the US elections, expressing itself on the Democrats' side. Also, the US president accused Twitter of of "secretly blocking" the accounts of Republican politicians.
