Facebook found hosting masses of far right EU disinformation networks

A multi-month hunt for political disinformation spreading on Facebook in Europe suggests there are concerted efforts to use the platform to spread bogus far right propaganda to millions of voters ahead of a key EU vote which kicks off tomorrow. Following the independent investigation, Facebook has taken down a total of 77 pages and 230 accounts from Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain and Poland -- which had been followed by an estimated 32 million people and generated 67 million 'interactions' (i.e. The bogus mainly far-right disinformation networks were not identified by Facebook -- but had been reported to it by campaign group Avaaz -- which says the fake pages had more Facebook followers and interactions than all the main EU far right and anti-EU parties combined.