Iran is accelerating online activity which appears intended to influence the upcoming US election, Microsoft said on Friday. Iranian actors have spent months creating fake news sites and impersonating activists, laying the groundwork to stoke division and potentially sway voters, the technology megacorporation found. Microsoft’s most recent threat intelligence report shows how Iran is evolving its tactics for the impending election likely to have global implications. The report goes a step beyond anything U.S. intelligence officials have disclosed, giving specific examples of Iranian groups an…