Facebook catches Russian trolls targeting Corbyn supporters to attack Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg

Facebook has taken down a covert Russian influence campaign that targeted supporters of Jeremy Corbyn with scathing attacks on Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Keir Starmer. The social media giant said on Tuesday that it had removed a small network of Facebook accounts and pages attempting to promote a Left-wing news website called PeaceData, linked to the same Russian "troll factory" that meddled in Britain's EU referendum. The campaign recruited real freelance journalists to write articles,