New cyber attacks discovered...
Facebook has identified an ongoing effort to influence the US midterm elections, using inauthentic accounts and pages on the social network, Sara Frier reports on bloombergcom.
"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 in a blog post, Frier wrote.
"It's clear that whoever set up these accounts went to much greater lengths to obscure their true identities than the Russian-base Internet Research Agency has in the past," Facebook said, according to Frier.
Examples of inauthentic pages, according to Facebook:
For more of a breaking story: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-31/facebook-finds-ongoing-evidence-of-election-interference
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