Troll Farms Leading the Way: Are You Following?

@ASoulAFire @JaniceOCG @Handmaids_s3e6 “Troll farms reached 140 million Americans a month” according to @_KarenHao in @techreview.  They are marching us straight to Gilead!

Are you being led by a troll?  Check out these lists to see if you follow any of these troll-led sites which target Christians, African Americans, Native Americans and women.  — LMO

“In the run-up to the 2020 election, the most highly contested in US history, Facebook’s most popular pages for Christian and Black American content were being run by Eastern European troll farms. These pages were part of a larger network that collectively reached nearly half of all Americans, according to an internal company report, and achieved that reach not through user choice but primarily as a result of Facebook’s own platform design and engagement-hungry algorithm.”  — Karen Hao

READ | Troll farms reached 140 million Americans a month on Facebook before 2020 election, internal report shows | by Karen Hao | MIT Technology Review | 9/16/2021