Posted on 07/31/2018 10:03:03 AM PDT by BBell
Facebook has found a coordinated effort to influence the 2018 mid-term elections using Facebook profiles and advertisements.
Facebook said that it doesn't yet know who is behind the misinformation attack.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill were told earlier this week, the New York Times reported.
Facebook has detected a coordinated effort to use its social network to influence the 2018 US mid-term elections, according to a report in the New York Times on Tuesday.
"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 blog post published after the Times story published. "But we are sharing what we know today given the connection between these bad actors and protests that are planned in Washington next week."
Facebook has not directly linked the efforts to Russia, the Times reported, thought it cited two anonymous sources that said Russia was "possibly" involved.
The election influence campaign involves dozens of inauthentic Facebook accounts and pages, the report says. Facebook reportedly told lawmakers on Capitol Hill about its findings this week.
According to Facebook, it found eight pages and 17 profiles that were part of the conspiracy with over 290,000 total followers. The "bad actors" in question created also created about 30 events since May, with the largest attracting 1400 users that said they planned to attend.
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What do you want to bet that this is being done by 0bama and his minions?
By politicians?........................
Democrats providing cover for when the blue wave turns into a puddle, they can go straight back to the “We was robbed by those wascally Russians!” narrative again.
What does this mean exactly? Someone is posting propaganda?
Facebook takes itself sooooo seriously, lol.
My first thought, too.
LOL...right in time with the phony claims of Clair McCaskill and Jeanne Shaheen that they were “hacked”
More Lies from Corporate Globalist DEEP_STATE.
Too many soft headed fools get their information there. The same kind who fall for Onion articles.
“a coordinated effort”
That eliminates the Republicans.
So Facebook is now acting as a pseudo Attorney General, determining that the behavior they’ve detected is a crime? Are they also going to be the Grand Jury, the judge, the prosecutor, and the jury?
Call me suspicious.
This is a charade to create an "I told you so" moment by the sore losers of last election.
To influence in whose favor? And what if evrything said is true.
Man, those ‘evil’ Russian at work again? Isn’t this like some episode of Rocky and Bullwinkle?
It would seem to me that I could take a group of sixth-grade kids, and have a virtual army of fake facebook ‘marauders’ at work over a weekend, and maybe create some giant conspiracy within a 72-hour period with 44,000 fake facebook accounts.
Seems like Facebook is trashing their own brand.
They are either 1) admitting they are a conduit of propaganda or 2) they are willing to play along with nonsense MSM and deep-state political narratives.
Dems already have the excuse when they don’t get the blue wave in November..its the Russians..again..
On my facebook feed its non stop Democrat propaganda..I never see any articles favoring Republicans
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