Facebook pulls dozens of accounts for ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior’

Just hours before the elections, Facebook removed 30 accounts and 85 Instagram users the company says were engaged in “coordinated inauthentic behavior.”

“On Sunday evening, U.S. law enforcement contacted us about online activity that they recently discovered and which they believe may be linked to foreign entities,” said Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy Nathaniel Gleicher. “We immediately blocked these accounts and are now investigating them in more detail.”

The Facebook accounts “appear to be in the French or Russian languages, while the Instagram accounts seem to have mostly been in English — some were focused on celebrities, others political debate,” he said.

Read more from TechCrunch.