Robert Hyde, a GOP congressional candidate who has become embroiled in the impeachment investigation, on Saturday said he had been operating Facebook pages displaying posts in his defense while purporting to be run by groups of Trump supporters in different states.

“ The coordination of the pages was uncovered in an analysis conducted by the social-media intelligence company Storyful, which is owned by News Corp, parent of MarketWatch and Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones. ”

After the Wall Street Journal reported on the pages’ apparent connection to Hyde, Facebook Inc. late Friday took them down. A Facebook spokeswoman said when the company finds networks of pages misleading people by concealing who is behind them, it requires owners to show additional information.