Facebook said it blocked 115 accounts for suspected "coordinated inauthentic behaviour" linked to foreign groups attempting to interfere in Tuesday's US midterm elections. The social media company shut down 30 Facebook accounts and 85 Instagram accounts and is investigating them in more detail, it said in a blog post late Monday. Almost all of the Facebook pages associated with the blocked accounts appeared to be in French or Russian. It carried out an even broader sweep in August, removing 652 pages, groups and accounts linked to Russia and Iran. Still, Facebook is seeing some payoff, and not just with the accounts it has been able to find and take down.

Source: News 24 November 06, 2018 18:22 UTC