Facebook suspends more fake accounts ahead of US midterms

Facebook says it has removed 32 pages believed to have been set up to influence the US midterm elections.

Social media giant Facebook says it has uncovered a number of pages and accounts set up to influence the US mid-term elections.

It has removed 32 accounts and pages – which had almost 300,000 followers – it believes are fake and intended to create divisions before November’s vote.

 

Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher reports from Washington, DC.