Yesterday, Facebook announced it had taken down 32 Facebook and Instagram accounts for

coordinated inauthentic behavior. Apparently, these accounts were targeting the left in an

effort to spark confrontations with the right. A lot of people are scared about Russian election

meddling and the midterms are coming up. One of the things missing from the narrative and one of

the ways in which the media is complicit in this problem is that everyone keeps focusing on Russia

supporting Trump when we have known for a long time that the Russian meddling as well as other

foreign government meddling has targeted both the left and the right. The goal isn't necessarily

to get Donald Trump elected. It's not necessarily to ensure Republicans win in the midterms. It's

to disrupt the U.S. It's to disrupt our culture. So let's take a look at exactly what happened with

Facebook and Instagram and let's take a look exactly how whoever is behind this meddling is targeting

the left. Before we get started, I've got something new to announce. I have been officially given

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all I've got to do is click that little button just beneath the video. The story from the New York

Times, Facebook identifies an active political influence campaign using fake accounts. Facebook

sat on Tuesday that identified a political influence campaign that was potentially built to disrupt

the midterm elections with the company detecting and removing 32 pages and fake accounts that

had engaged in activity around divisive social issues. The company did not definitively link the

campaign to Russia. But Facebook officials said some of the tools and techniques used by the

accounts were similar to those used by the Internet and Research Agency, the Kremlin-linked group

that was at the center of an indictment this year, alleging interference in the 2016 presidential

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