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Facebook Scraps Accounts Trying to Influence November's U.S. Elections

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On Tuesday Reuters reported that Facebook has identified a coordinated political influence campaign ahead of November’s U.S. congressional elections and taken down dozens of fake accounts on its site. According to the company, a Russian propaganda arm tried to tamper in the 2016 U.S. election by posting and buying ads on Facebook. Facebook on Tuesday said here had it removed 32 pages and accounts from Facebook and Instagram, part of an effort to combat foreign meddling in U.S. elections.

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