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Facebook troll farms and modern Christianity

2021-09-29 17:48:20.89323+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

MIT Technology Review: Troll farms reached 140 million Americans a month on Facebook before 2020 election, internal report shows

“Instead of users choosing to receive content from these actors, it is our platform that is choosing to give [these troll farms] an enormous reach,” wrote the report’s author, Jeff Allen, a former senior-level data scientist at Facebook.

Looking at this data in a different slice: Relevant Magazine: In 2019, Almost All of Facebook’s Top Christian Pages Were Run By Foreign Troll Farms

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