Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Thursday, October 11th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Facebook cracks down again ahead of the election.

Apple makes some interesting acquisitions.

How many cameras does a smartphone need and Dieter Rums

just wants Silicon Valley to slow down.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Facebook is taking this upcoming US election very seriously, or at least it wants you to know

that it is taking this election very seriously.

Facebook announced this afternoon that it is removing over 800 US publishers and accounts

from its platform, some with more than 100,000 followers. The crime?

Spamming users with political content.

Facebook said these publishers violated the company's spam policies.

According to the Washington Post, quote,

the accounts and pages with names such as reasonable people unite and

Reverb Press were probably domestic actors using click bait headlines and

other spammy tactics to drive users to websites where they could target them with ads, the company said.

Some had hundreds of thousands of followers and expressed a range of political viewpoints,

including a page that billed itself as the first publication to endorse President Donald J. Trump.

They did not appear to have ties to Russia, company officials said.

Facebook said it was not removing the publishers and accounts because of the type of content they posted, but because of the behaviors

they engaged in, including spamming Facebook groups with identical pieces of content,

unauthorized coordination, and using fake profiles."

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