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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFacebook 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-n1236056Facebook 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 farms motivations were unclear, but they didnt 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
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Roland99
(53,342 posts)1. Epoch Times bs.
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.
Sometimes theirs is even longer than the Democrats'.
Budi
(15,325 posts)2. There goes the base Repubs were building for Kanye.
Oops!