Facebook suspends multiple accounts for ‘coordinated’ suspicious activity on eve of election

Source: The Hill | November 5, 2018 | Brett Samuels

Facebook announced Sunday that it has suspended 115 accounts due to suspicious behavior on the eve of the midterm elections.

The company said in a news release that U.S. law enforcement contacted Facebook on Sunday night about online activity potentially linked to foreign entities. In response, the social media giant suspended 30 Facebook accounts and 85 Instagram accounts believed to be engaged in “coordinated inauthentic behavior.”

“We immediately blocked these accounts and are now investigating them in more detail,” Nathaniel Gleicher, head of cybersecurity policy at Facebook, said in a statement. “Almost all the Facebook Pages associated with these accounts appear to be in the French or Russian languages, while the Instagram accounts seem to have mostly been in English — some were focused on celebrities, others political debate.”

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