published Aug 21, 2018, 7:58:34 PM, by Sarah Frier (Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc. for the first time named a country other than Russia that has been using fake accounts to manipulate global politics: Iran. The social network said it removed 652 pages, groups and accounts for “inauthentic behavior” that originated

It’s funny how before something very unusual and quite terrible happens, there are always a bunch of people saying “Don’t be silly. Don’t worry about such nonsense.  These things just don’t happen.”  Well, yeah, they do.  They happen a lot actually. Of course, when they happen, the same people that