Facebook suspends accounts over online tactics used in Alabama Senate race
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Facebook has suspended five accounts for misleading tactics during last year's U.S. Senate race in Alabama. A statement from Facebook says the company "recently removed five accounts run by multiple individuals for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook around the Alabama special election." Facebook says the investigation is ongoing. The Washington Post and New York Times have reported that a social media researcher acknowledged testing misleading online tactics during U.S. Sen. Doug Jones' campaign against Republican Roy Moore last year. The effort was modeled on alleged Russian attempts to bolster the candidacy of President Donald Trump in 2016. Jones told reporters last week that his campaign didn't know anything about the effort.
Facebook suspends accounts for pushing false info in Alabama election
moreover from The suspensions came after Morgan acknowledged that he'd created a deceptive Facebook page aimed at conservatives, and had bought retweets on Twitter. Morgan argued that this was part of a research effort to see how online misinformation spread rather than a conscious effort to skew the election, but Facebook clearly didn't see it that way. New Knowledge played an important role in the Senate report that showed how Russia meddled with the 2016 presidential election. None of the company's accounts or pages violated policies, according to Facebook, but Morgan's suspension doesn't the firm's credibility. Senator Doug Jones, the winner of the Alabama election, called for the Federal Election Commission and the Justice Department to investigate the incident with a warning that disinformation could happen at home.
Facebook suspends accounts over online tactics used in Alabama Senate race
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Facebook has suspended five accounts for misleading tactics during last year's U.S. Senate race in Alabama. A statement from Facebook says the company "recently removed five accounts run by multiple individuals for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook around the Alabama special election." Facebook says the investigation is ongoing. The Washington Post and New York Times have reported that a social media researcher acknowledged testing misleading online tactics during U.S. Sen. Doug Jones' campaign against Republican Roy Moore last year. The effort was modeled on alleged Russian attempts to bolster the candidacy of President Donald Trump in 2016. Jones told reporters last week that his campaign didn't know anything about the effort.
as declared in The suspensions came after Morgan acknowledged that he'd created a deceptive Facebook page aimed at conservatives, and had bought retweets on Twitter. Morgan argued that this was part of a research effort to see how online misinformation spread rather than a conscious effort to skew the election, but Facebook clearly didn't see it that way. New Knowledge played an important role in the Senate report that showed how Russia meddled with the 2016 presidential election. None of the company's accounts or pages violated policies, according to Facebook, but Morgan's suspension doesn't the firm's credibility. Senator Doug Jones, the winner of the Alabama election, called for the Federal Election Commission and the Justice Department to investigate the incident with a warning that disinformation could happen at home.
Facebook suspends accounts for pushing false info in Alabama election
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