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Al Jazeera
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Politics
Alan Fisher

Facebook suspends more fake accounts ahead of US midterms

Facebook suspends more fake accounts ahead of US midterms

Social media giant Facebook says it has uncovered a number of pages and accounts set up to influence the US mid-term elections.

It has removed 32 accounts and pages - which had almost 300,000 followers - it believes are fake and intended to create divisions before November's vote.

 

Al Jazeera's Alan Fisher reports from Washington, DC.

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