--- title: Facebook Discovers an Ongoing Effort to Influence the 2018 Midterm Elections | TIME description: Facebook is investigating an ongoing effort to influence the US Midterm elections using inauthentic accounts and pages on their site. canonical: https://time.com/video/HPetwoL6/ og:title: Facebook Discovers an Ongoing Effort to Influence the 2018 Midterm Elections og:description: Facebook is investigating an ongoing effort to influence the US Midterm elections using inauthentic accounts and pages on their site. og:url: https://time.com/video/HPetwoL6/ og:image: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/HPetwoL6/poster.jpg?width=720 og:type: video.other twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Facebook Discovers an Ongoing Effort to Influence the 2018 Midterm Elections twitter:description: Facebook is investigating an ongoing effort to influence the US Midterm elections using inauthentic accounts and pages on their site. twitter:image: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/HPetwoL6/poster.jpg?width=720 --- # Facebook Discovers an Ongoing Effort to Influence the 2018 Midterm Elections ## Video: Facebook Discovers an Ongoing Effort to Influence the 2018 Midterm Elections [Watch (HLS stream): Facebook Discovers an Ongoing Effort to Influence the 2018 Midterm Elections](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/HPetwoL6.m3u8) (0:50)  _Published 2018-07-31. Facebook is investigating an ongoing effort to influence the US Midterm elections using inauthentic accounts and pages on their site._ --- Aug 7, 2026 3:30 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [](/video/6UnDsle8/) 01:27 ### The 2018 Elections Saw Record Midterm Turnout [](/video/pOQrdNnY/) 03:18 ### 2018 Midterm Elections: The Democratic Resistance [](/video/YgAzmeYS/) 01:14 ### Obama on Midterm Elections --- ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Facebook Discovers an Ongoing Effort to Influence the 2018 Midterm Elections","description":"Facebook is investigating an ongoing effort to influence the US Midterm elections using inauthentic accounts and pages on their site.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/HPetwoL6/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-07-31T19:10:23.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/HPetwoL6.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/HPetwoL6/","duration":"PT50S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/HPetwoL6/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```