{"id":1828,"date":"2018-08-01T07:31:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T07:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madhousereport.com\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2018-08-01T07:31:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T07:31:18","slug":"facebook-uncovers-attempts-influence-upcoming-us-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=1828","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Uncovers Attempts To Influence Upcoming US Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FACEBOOK has uncovered a coordinated campaign using dozens of phony accounts apparently designed to sway political opinion on its site heading into November\u2019s elections, a report said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The social media giant is preparing to announce the alarming discovery on Tuesday afternoon following a week of briefing Washington lawmakers on its investigation into similar interference ahead of the 2016 presidential election, The New York Times reported, citing sources briefed on the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s internal probe uncovered the current campaign while looking into the 2016 interference, which has been linked to Russia and its Internet Research Agency, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>They have yet to determine who is behind the most recent coordinated campaign attempting to put its thumb on the scales of the upcoming midterm elections, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has been working with the FBI to investigate the suspicious activity, according to the paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FACEBOOK has uncovered a coordinated campaign using dozens of phony accounts apparently designed to sway political opinion on its site heading into November\u2019s elections, a report said Tuesday. The social media giant is preparing to announce the alarming discovery on Tuesday afternoon following a week of briefing Washington lawmakers on its investigation into similar interference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[286,935,1401,377],"class_list":["post-1828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-elections","tag-facebook","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1830,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions\/1830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}