Facebook finds pro-Trump group helped make hundreds of accounts to spam comments with attacks

[Zorro]

Source: The Independent

Facebook finds pro-Trump group helped make hundreds of accounts to spam comments with attacks on Biden

Facebook has removed hundreds of fake accounts tied to right-wing group Turning Point USA, which enlisted a now-banned marketing group to flood comment sections of news stories to attack Joe Biden and Democrats while praising Donald Trump.

The social media company announced on Thursday that marketing firm Rally Forge had worked with Turning Point USA to make 200 profiles and 55 pages on the platform and 76 on Instagram, beginning in 2018 and continuing through 2020.

Facebook said the accounts violated the company’s polices about “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” that relied “on real people, not automation” to “create the perception of wide-spread support of their narratives by leaving comments on posts by media entities and public figures.”

Roughly 373,000 people followed one or more of those pages, and 22,000 people followed on or more of those Instagram accounts.

Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/facebook-finds-pro-trump-group-173908709.html

[C Moon]

1. I brought up an obviously fake account that was Trump-parading and that's all. Brand new account.

FB wrote me back that the account looks fine. There are no problems with it.
Yeah, right.
Now they can see Trump's going to lose, so they're trying to cover their butt.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. All some 400 pound guy in his basement

More likely some troll farm in Eastern Europe.

[stopwastingmymoney]

3. The comments on Gavin Newsom's FB are gross

And repetitive