WASHINGTON _ A new social-media influence campaign that Facebook divulged on Tuesday provides fresh evidence suggesting the Kremlin or others are seeking to magnify the anger felt by groups on the fringes of American society, even to the point of provoking physical clashes.
Facebook said it had removed 32 pages and accounts from its own social-media platform and that of Instagram, and that all were part of a coordinated campaign with a link to the Russian-based Internet Research Agency accused of meddling in the 2016 presidential election
Some of the accounts taken down Tuesday _ bearing such names as "Aztlan Warriors," "Black Elevation," "Mindful Being" and "Resisters" _ already have a significant reach into American society. Facebook said at least 290,000 accounts followed at least one of the pages, which was not identified.
