At the end of polling day after the US elections in 2020, Facebook staff finally allowed themselves to breathe a sigh of relief. Joe Biden had ousted Donald Trump – and Facebook had snuffed out efforts of foreign operatives to influence voters via social media.
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Someone in China created thousands of fake social media accounts designed to appear to be from Americans and used them to spread polarizing political content in an apparent effort to divide the U.S. ahead of next year’s elections, Meta said Thursday. The network of nearly 4,800 fake accounts was attempting to build an audience when…