Elections
Facebook says it stopped a Russia-linked campaign aimed at provoking political chaos in the US, following a tip off from the FBI. A network of 13 Facebook accounts and two pages posing as journalists had targeted left-wing voters in the US and Britain. Facebook said the campaign had used fake personas to recruit freelance journalists to write about domestic politics. The FBI says it has made significant changes to its processes in order to overcome deficiencies in the way it dealt with incidents during the last US presidential election in 2016. But technology platforms are still grappling with how to combat the disinformation being spread in the run-up to November's poll. It took Google five days to remove ($) misleading ads about voting by mail. And Twitter labeled a tweet by a Republican congressman "misleading" after it was found to have deliberately faked the electronic voice of a disabled activist with motor neurone disease.