Cybersecurity
U.S. Alerts Facebook About Foreign Content
On Sunday night, U.S. authorities told Facebook to look into some coordinated internet behavior from fake accounts they believe could be related to a foreign entity, the company said Monday.
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U.S. midterm elections on Tuesday will determine whether the Republican Party keeps control of Congress for the next two years. While the political battle rages, internet and social-media companies are waging their own war online against trolls, bots, manipulation and misinformation designed to sway the results. There’s also concern about potential voting machine glitches and other disruptions, along with cyber-attacks and misuse of digital ads.
Here’s the latest activity, and what firms including Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. are doing about it: