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Nevilledog

(50,659 posts)
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 04:04 PM Aug 2020

Facebook removes troll farm posing as African-American support for Donald Trump

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-removes-troll-farm-posing-african-american-support-donald-trump-n1236056

Facebook removed hundreds of accounts on Thursday from a foreign troll farm posing as African-Americans in support of Donald Trump and QAnon supporters. It also removed hundreds of fake accounts linked to conservative media outlet The Epoch Times that pushed pro-Trump conspiracy theories about coronavirus and protests in the U.S.

Facebook took down the accounts as part of its enforcement against coordinated inauthentic behavior, which is the use of fake accounts to inflate the reach of content or products on social media.

The foreign pro-Trump troll farm was based in Romania and pushed content on Instagram under names like “BlackPeopleVoteForTrump” and on Facebook under “We Love Our President.”

Troll farms — groups of people that work together to manipulate internet discourse with fake accounts — are often outsourced and purchased by foreign governments or businesses to push specific political talking points. Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook's head of security policy, said the troll farm’s motivations were unclear, but they didn’t see “clear evidence of financial motivation” or “clear links to known commercial actors in this space.”

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Facebook removes troll farm posing as African-American support for Donald Trump (Original Post) Nevilledog Aug 2020 OP
Epoch Times bs. Roland99 Aug 2020 #1
They have also purchased ad time in front of a lot of Democratic ads. kentuck Aug 2020 #3
There goes the base Repubs were building for Kanye. Budi Aug 2020 #2

Roland99

(53,342 posts)
1. Epoch Times bs.
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 04:36 PM
Aug 2020

run by the Falun Gong "cult" in China. Already banned from YouTube. purveyors of conspiracy theory bs

kentuck

(110,950 posts)
3. They have also purchased ad time in front of a lot of Democratic ads.
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 06:36 PM
Aug 2020

Sometimes theirs is even longer than the Democrats'.

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