(3.8.2018) Earlier this week, Facebook announced that it had uncovered a new wave of disinformation attacks ahead of the 2018 elections. To hear Facebook tell it, the new attacks pretty closely mirror Russia‘s Internet Research Agency attacks during the 2016 election. As in, the culprits are trying to sow distrust and amplify partisan divisions on both sides of the aisle by creating fake organizations, fake people, fake news, and rockin‘ memes. How much that actually accomplishes is the matter of some debate, but it‘s also pretty clear we don‘t yet understand how deep this rabbit hole really goes.

According to Facebook, this latest attack on the nation‘s gullible shows signs of evolution from the more ham-fisted attacks seen during the 2016 election. And while there‘s no hard link to Russia yet, Facebook claims there are some connections between Russian Internet Research Agency „troll farm“ accounts and this new wave of disinformation: