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Thomas Hurt
Thomas Hurt's Journal
Thomas Hurt's Journal
September 20, 2021
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rest of the article here:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/1035851/facebook-troll-farms-report-us-2020-election/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Troll farms reached 140 million Americans a month on Facebook before 2020 election, internal report"
In the run-up to the 2020 election, the most highly contested in US history, Facebooks 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 Facebooks own platform design and engagement-hungry algorithm.
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rest of the article here:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/1035851/facebook-troll-farms-report-us-2020-election/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
September 12, 2021
I was on vacation in Yellowstone...anyone heard what happened to the AZ fraudit report?
I don't see anything on google since late August.