translated from Spanish: Facebook cancels more than 300 fake accounts promoting politicians

Facebook deleted 371 accounts and 120 profiles from this social network, plus 78 Instagram accounts that were used to promote candidates and criticize their opponents, he noted in his March report on CoordinatedNautic Behavior.
Facebook detected a network of 39 accounts; 15 fake Instagram pages and 8 profiles created to react, comment and share information. Some of these pages published memes, entertainment information, elections, sports, government economic policies, vaccination and information about Grupo Salinas, a company that owns Televisión Azteca. 
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This network commented for and against the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. It was detected that they had invested nearly 14,000 pesos in ads for Facebool and Instagram. 
Facebook’s investigation found that some of these fake pages were handled by the Flow Agency, a firm established in Mexico.
Facebook found fake account networks in four states. 
According to its report, in Quintana Roo, Facebook deselected 71 accounts, 18 pages and 7 Instagram accounts for violating its coordinated inautentic behavior policy, by using fake accounts to post, comment on and manage pages with information from Morena Senator Maybel Villegas Canché, and criticize its co-religionist Mara Lezama.
The report notes that nearly 4,100 pesos had already been invested in advertising. 
In Colima, Facebook deleted 56 fake accounts that were used to like, post, and amplify content posted on the official page of Claudia Yánez, candidate of the Force for Mexico party to the government of that state.
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The social network also deseded 54 Facebook accounts and 73 pages in Baja California. This network of fake accounts was detected and disabled by the automated systems of the social network. 
The people behind this network created pages that looked like real profiles to comment and amplify content about the election to governor of the state and promote information and the official page of the former mayor of Tijuana, Arturo González Cruz, who seeks to be a federal deputy.
In Nayarit, 151 Facebook accounts and 14 pages were deleted, as well as 63 Instagram profiles. 
The network reacted, commented and published content related to local and federal elections, as well as information from local deputy Eduardo Lugo, who is looking for a mayoral, and Miguel Angel Navarro Quintero, a senator for the state.
 
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Original source in Spanish