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Appeared on: Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Facebook Removed Pages From Inauthentic Accounts

Facebook today removed 32 Pages and accounts from Facebook and Instagram because "they were involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior."

The company said that the specific pages were trying to influence the U.S. midterm elections, using inauthentic accounts and pages on the social network.

"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 Tuesday. "It's clear that whoever set up these accounts went to much greater lengths to obscure their true identities than the Russian-based Internet Research Agency has in the past."

About two weeks ago, Facebook says it identified the first of eight Pages and 17 profiles on Facebook, as well as seven Instagram accounts, that violate the company's ban on coordinated inauthentic behavior. Facebook removed all of them this morning and shared the information with US law enforcement agencies, Congress, other technology companies, and the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, a research organization that helps us identify and analyze abuse on Facebook.



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