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Facebook reported and blocked attempts to influence campaign ahead of midterms US elections

August 1, 2018

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Facebook is shutting down content and accounts “engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior”

At the time there is no evidence that confirms the involvement of Russia, but intelligence experts suspect that Russian APT groups were behind the operation.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced its response to the recently disclosed abuses.

“One of my top priorities for 2018 is to prevent misuse of Facebook,” Zuckerberg said on his own Facebook page.

“We build services to bring people closer together and I want to ensure we’re doing everything we can to prevent anyone from misusing them to drive us apart.”

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