Facebook has removed a network of suspected Russian-linked accounts and pages involved in organizing political events in the United States. The network is the most extensive effort to interfere in American politics that Facebook has found and made public ahead of November's midterm elections. For example, while IP addresses are easy to spoof, the IRA accounts we disabled last year sometimes used Russian IP addresses. The most followed Facebook pages were "Aztlan Warriors," "Black Elevation," "Mindful Being," and "Resisters." Related: The biggest Black Lives Matter page on Facebook is fakeThe company said the pages ran 150 ads for a total of approximately $11,000.

Source: CNN July 31, 2018 16:37 UTC