Facebook disables Romanian network masquerading as pro-Trump Americans

David Adrian posted passionately about American politics, sharing adulatory memes on Facebook about President Trump and recirculating material from his reelection campaign.

The user even invoked the Obama family, suggesting the nation’s first Black president and his wife had endorsed Trump in an apparent bid to drum up support for the Republican incumbent among African American voters. An associated Twitter account indicated Adrian lived in “Montana, USA.”

Facebook on Thursday said Adrian’s accounts were part of a coordinated network of accounts and pages originating in Romania and posing as conservative Americans supportive of the president’s reelection. In addition to African American support for Trump, the material focused on members of the president’s inner circle, conservative media and Christianity. It also invoked themes associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory, whose adherents believe Trump is battling a cabal of deep-state saboteurs who worship Satan and traffic children for sex.

The network was relatively small, composed of 35 accounts and three pages, as well as 88 accounts on Instagram. The pages had racked up about 1,600 followers, while about 7,200 users were following the accounts on Instagram.

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