Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Tuesday, November 6, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today. Facebook takes down more accounts ahead of the election. The new Chrome might block all

ads on some websites. The MacBook Air reviews are in and why you might not be able to read election results in tomorrow's newspaper.

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

As much as I enjoy how to a certain extent this podcast is largely able to avoid

politics on a day-to-day basis, it's almost a respite from that constant

Michiganas sometimes, there are days like today. respite from that constant Michigan sometimes.

There are days like today when it's unavoidable,

especially as Tech has increasingly found itself so emmeshed in politics

in recent years, much to the Valley's consternation, I think. Election day is today in the

U.S. Of course, everyone is watching to see if there is some sort of social media misinformation campaign that pops up like it did two years ago.

Late last night, Facebook announced that it had blocked 115 accounts, 85 of them on Instagram and 30 on Facebook that were engaged in, quote,

coordinated inauthentic behavior ahead of the U.S. midterm elections.

What's interesting is that Facebook didn't discover these accounts.

Quoting from their blog post, on Sunday evening,

US law enforcement contacted us about online activity

that they recently discovered in which they believe may be linked to foreign entities.

Our very early stage investigation has so far identified around 30 Facebook accounts and

85 Instagram accounts that may be engaged in coordinated in authentic behavior.

We immediately blocked these accounts and are now investigating them in more detail.

Almost all the Facebook pages associated with these accounts appear to be in the French or Russian

languages, while the Instagram accounts seem to have mostly been in English.

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