Facebook Purges Iranian Accounts Posing as Americans to Stir Left-Wing Outrage

Facebook on Friday deleted 82 accounts, groups, and pages associated with an Iranian propaganda campaign designed to exacerbate partisan outrage.The campaign, which consisted of 30 pages, 33 Facebook accounts, 16 Instagram accounts, and three groups, fixated on charged racial and political issues — such as Colin Kaepernick’s on-field protest movement and the battle over Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court — to incite anti-Republican and anti-Trump administ