Facebook takes down community of pretend pages created in China geared toward influencing US election

The network discovered by Facebook included 155 accounts, 11 pages, nine groups and six Instagram accounts. Posting in Chinese and English, the group largely pushed stories of interest to overseas Filipino workers Washington: Facebook has detected limited Chinese operations intended to both help and hurt President Donald Trumpࢀ™s reelection chances, the company announced on Tuesday, the first public disclosure of Chinese efforts to influence the presidential election in November. The Chinese activity, while modest and not directly attributed to the government in Beijing, could undercut Trumpࢀ™s repeated contention that China is intervening in the election to support former vice-president Joe…