In the lead up to the 2018 midterm election, a Facebook employee removed suspicious Utah-related posts originating from an ad farm in Bangladesh, according to a report published Friday by Bloomberg.
The Utah incident was one example offered by the social media giant as part of a presentation in Paris, and reviewed by Bloomberg, to demonstrate the company’s beefed up response to political misinformation campaigns following the revelation of Russian meddling in 2016.
“The presentation details how Facebook has come to understand how networks of impostor accounts use the social network to amplify divisive ideas on immigration, guns and race relations,” wrote Bloomberg’s Sarah Frier.