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Credit to Author: WIRED Staff| Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2018 16:16:40 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n Election Day is <\/span>a perfect environment for misinformation to spread, whether it\u2019s through coordinated campaigns or honest error\u2014or a mix of both. The stakes are high, there\u2019s a lot of breaking news, and the US voting system<\/a> isn\u2019t always the most intuitive. Social media didn\u2019t create misinformation, but as Emily Dreyfuss wrote last week<\/a>, it can certainly add fuel to the fire. And the 2018 midterms<\/a> have been, as the kids say, lit.<\/p>\n WIRED will update this page throughout Election Day to track the biggest stories, the most common hoaxes, and the likeliest sources of confusion as they emerge online. If you\u2019re looking for ways to follow the election results tonight, Pia Ceres has you covered here<\/a>. And most important of all, go vote<\/a>!<\/p>\n Late Monday night, Facebook announced<\/a> it had identified dozens of accounts on Facebook and Instagram that \u201cmay be engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior\u201d after US law enforcement alerted the company to some online activity they believe might be linked to foreign entities. So far, the company says it has blocked around 30 Facebook accounts, whose associated pages were mostly in French and Russian, and 85 Instagram accounts, which were mostly in English and covered a mix of celebrities and politics. The company says it will investigate further.<\/p>\n \u201cTypically, we would be further along with our analysis before announcing anything publicly,\u201d Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook\u2019s head of cybersecurity policy, wrote in a post announcing the action. \u201cBut given that we are only one day away from important elections in the US, we wanted to let people know about the action we\u2019ve taken and the facts as we know them today.\u201d The news comes a little over a week after Facebook took down another coordinated network; that one, which the company said originated in Iran, appeared to follow<\/a> the playbook Russian trolls perfected<\/a> during the 2016 election: posing as US citizens to drive engagement around divisive social issues and national events. As of Tuesday morning, the company had not identified any foreign entities connected to the blocked accounts.<\/p>\n There\u2019s no outright deception here, but plenty of room for misunderstanding. On Monday, the CBP announced<\/a> that it would engage in a \u201cmobile field force demonstration,\u201d showing off its crowd control expertise\u2014in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood in El Paso, on Election Day. After civil rights groups expressed concerns that the exercise could double as voter intimidation, the Texas Civil Rights Project<\/a> confirmed that CBP called it off an hour before the scheduled start time.<\/p>\n So if you see reports about the CBP potentially intimidating voters in Texas senate candidate Beto O'Rourke's backyard, know that they\u2019re outdated\u2014but only as of very recently.<\/p>\n