MAT HONAN

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What's more troll farm pages achieved that reach not through user choice, but via Facebook’s own engagement-hungry algorithm. As @_KarenHao reports, 75% of those 140 million had never followed troll pages. They saw it because Facebook pushed it into their news feeds. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 17, 2021

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Big scoop from @_KarenHao: On the eve of the 2020 election Facebook’s most popular pages for Christian and Black American content were run by Eastern European troll farms, part of a network that reached nearly half of all Americans: https://t.co/6rrRGeYMHH — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 17, 2021

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This story was based on a report from a Facebook data scientist who had been ringing the alarm bell in 2019. Facebook did eventually act on those pages — or at least most of them. While fact-checking the story, we found that five were still up and running today. 🤷 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 17, 2021