• Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Georgetown University in Washington Thursday. With just over a year left until the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Facebook is stepping up its efforts to ensure it is not used as a tool to interfere in politics and democracies around the world. Facebook said Monday it will also label state-controlled media as such, label fact -checks more clearly and invest $2 million in media literacy projects. | AP
    Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Georgetown University in Washington Thursday. With just over a year left until the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Facebook is stepping up its efforts to ensure it is not used as a tool to interfere in politics and democracies around the world. Facebook said Monday it will also label state-controlled media as such, label fact -checks more clearly and invest $2 million in media literacy projects. | AP

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LONDON/WASHINGTON – A network of Instagram accounts operated from Russia has targeted Americans with divisive political messages ahead of next year’s presidential election and posed as local people in U.S. states including Virginia and Florida, Facebook said.

Facebook said it had suspended the accounts on Monday, as well as three separate networks operated from Iran. The Russian network “showed some links” to Russia’s Internet Research Agency (IRA), Facebook said, an organization Washington has said was used by Moscow to meddle in the 2016 U.S. election.

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