Facebook and professional troll farms

[Regis Donovan]

Article on professional troll farms on facebook and how they spew misinformation into your timeline even if you don't follow their pages because Facebook's algorithm appears to be optimized for evil.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/1035851/facebook-troll-farms-report-us-2020-election/

Pull quote:

"Troll farms—professionalized groups that work in a coordinated fashion to post provocative content, often propaganda, to social networks—were still building massive audiences by running networks of Facebook pages. Their content was reaching 140 million US users per month—75% of whom had never followed any of the pages. They were seeing the content because Facebook’s content-recommendation system had pushed it into their news feeds."

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Unfortunate and disappointing but not surprising.

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