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

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Well..this should not be news to most of us..although many seem to be invested in downplaying this sort of thing..for whatever reason~

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

“This is not normal. This is not healthy.”

www.technologyreview.com

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.
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The report, written in October 2019 and obtained by MIT Technology Review from a former Facebook employee not involved in researching it, found that after the 2016 election, Facebook failed to prioritize fundamental changes to how its platform promotes and distributes information. The company instead pursued a whack-a-mole strategy that involved monitoring and quashing the activity of bad actors when they engaged in political discourse, and adding some guardrails that prevented “the worst of the worst.”
But this approach did little to stem the underlying problem, the report noted. 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.
“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.

The easiest way to control our population is through fear.

Ask yourself, who is pushing fear?

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Putin doesn't run eastern Europe, moron. And your masters simply overwhelmed them. Flooding is the CCP way.



The Nazi democrats melted down about memes on the internet. That isn't election interference. democrats fear information they can't censor.

Damn..you're so very full of shit.
You parade your ignorance as though it's something to be proud of.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

There is a very good way for Facebook to put a stop to this.

Discontinue the automatic feed algorithm.

If people want to find something on line or Facebook, let them go look for it themselves.

Stop piping lies into people's computer.

Good idea...but that algorithm is how they direct advertising ...it's not going anywhere.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

The easiest way to control our population is through fear.

Ask yourself, who is pushing fear?

Everyone.

 

[Dana7360]

Good idea...but that algorithm is how they direct advertising ...it's not going anywhere.

Then they can make that algorithm to advertise only products for business. Nothing else.

There is a way to put a stop to all this but when money is involved, money is all that matters.

 

[Lesh]

I wonder if I'm the only one who finds amusement in the fact that WE started this..with Voice of America?

I have zero patience for people who blame America for Russia's actions

 

[blackhawk]

If people are taking what they read on Facebook and Twitter seriously isn’t that more on them than Facebook and Twitter? For the record not a big fan of social media but if you are buying into anything you read on social media without question at some point the person looking back at you in the mirror has take some responsibility.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

O

I have zero patience for people who blame America for Russia's actions

Odd..I'd not have thought it a 'blame' thing.
It would appear you have zero patience with many things, eh?

 

[Uncensored2008]

Damn..you're so very full of shit.
You parade your ignorance as though it's something to be proud of.

Great retort.

We can always count on you Nazis to come up with "NUHN UHN"

I always love the fascist bullshit where you Nazis are presented with coercion by Omar's goons in Minnesota;

{
A ballot-harvesting racket in Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Minneapolis district — where paid workers illegally gather absentee ballots from elderly Somali immigrants — appears to have been busted by undercover news organization Project Veritas.

One alleged ballot harvester, Liban Mohamed, the brother of Minneapolis City Council member Jamal Osman, is shown in a bombshell Snapchat video rifling through piles of ballots strewn across his dashboard.

“Just today we got 300 for Jamal Osman,” says Mohamed, aka KingLiban1, in the video. “I have 300 ballots in my car right now . . .}

Opinion | Project Veritas uncovers 'ballot harvesting fraud' in Minnesota: Devine

A ballot-harvesting racket in Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Minneapolis district — where paid workers illegally gather absentee ballots from elderly Somali immigrants — appears to have been busted b…

nypost.com

But of course you said...

Wait for it....

"NUHN UHN"

But you same fucking morons turn around, and with drool streaming down your face shriek "Rushing memes FORCED people to vote for donad twump.."

You're a clown and best.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Everyone.

Seig Heil, democrat.

Uber Alles democrats.

 

[Uncensored2008]

I have zero patience for people who blame America for Russia's actions

While you blame America and Trump for China and Fauci's actions in developing the Wuhan Designer Virus®

Hypocritical fraud.

 

[Turtlesoup]

Well..this should not be news to most of us..although many seem to be invested in downplaying this sort of thing..for whatever reason~

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

“This is not normal. This is not healthy.”

www.technologyreview.com

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.
How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation
The company’s AI algorithms gave it an insatiable habit for lies and hate speech. Now the man who built them can't fix the problem.
The report, written in October 2019 and obtained by MIT Technology Review from a former Facebook employee not involved in researching it, found that after the 2016 election, Facebook failed to prioritize fundamental changes to how its platform promotes and distributes information. The company instead pursued a whack-a-mole strategy that involved monitoring and quashing the activity of bad actors when they engaged in political discourse, and adding some guardrails that prevented “the worst of the worst.”
But this approach did little to stem the underlying problem, the report noted. 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.
“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.

Why don't they ban Eastern Europe or change pages coming from Eastern Europe to a different color so people know who the source is and make up their own mind.

 

[hadit]

There is a very good way for Facebook to put a stop to this.

Discontinue the automatic feed algorithm.

If people want to find something on line or Facebook, let them go look for it themselves.

Stop piping lies into people's computer.

They won't because it drives advertising revenue. The algorithm only cares that your eyes stay on a page longer, and they analyze your viewing patterns to serve up those ads and articles.

As always it comes down to dollars. If you don't want automatic feeds of click bait you have to go to a paid subscription.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Great retort.

We can always count on you Nazis to come up with "NUHN UHN"

I always love the fascist bullshit where you Nazis are presented with coercion by Omar's goons in Minnesota;

{
A ballot-harvesting racket in Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Minneapolis district — where paid workers illegally gather absentee ballots from elderly Somali immigrants — appears to have been busted by undercover news organization Project Veritas.

One alleged ballot harvester, Liban Mohamed, the brother of Minneapolis City Council member Jamal Osman, is shown in a bombshell Snapchat video rifling through piles of ballots strewn across his dashboard.

“Just today we got 300 for Jamal Osman,” says Mohamed, aka KingLiban1, in the video. “I have 300 ballots in my car right now . . .}

Opinion | Project Veritas uncovers 'ballot harvesting fraud' in Minnesota: Devine

A ballot-harvesting racket in Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Minneapolis district — where paid workers illegally gather absentee ballots from elderly Somali immigrants — appears to have been busted b…

nypost.com

But of course you said...

Wait for it....

"NUHN UHN"

But you same fucking morons turn around, and with drool streaming down your face shriek "Rushing memes FORCED people to vote for donad twump.."

You're a clown and best.

Silence Q-bert~

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Why don't they ban Eastern Europe or change pages coming from Eastern Europe to a different color so people know who the source is and make up their own mind.

Given proxy servers and devious routing...might be harder than you think. Troll farms use other people's platforms to 'bootstrap' themselves into your feed.

 

[whitehall]

Troll farms? The post is part of a troll farm. WAPO and the NYT are troll farms. CNN is a troll farm. Creating labels and targeting Blacks and Christians only makes elitist academic snobs look like bigots.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Silence Q-bert~

Go blow a goat, Nazi.

Ever notice how no one had ever heard of QAnon prior to September 2020? That's because CNN hadn't invented it until then, to slander Trump with a fictitious conspiracy group.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Go blow a goat, Nazi.

Ever notice how no one had ever heard of QAnon prior to September 2020? That's because CNN hadn't invented it until then, to slander Trump with a fictitious conspiracy group.

Q been around since 2017. Not a big secret.

QAnon - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Although preceded by similar viral conspiracy theories such as Pizzagate,[22][23] which has since become part of QAnon, the conspiracy theory began with an October 2017 post on the anonymous imageboard website 4chan, by "Q" (or "QAnon"), who was presumably an American individual;[24] it is now possible that "Q" has become supported and or mirrored by group of people acting under the same name that have a connection to Trump.[25][26] A stylometric analysis of Q posts claims to have uncovered that at least two people wrote as "Q" in different periods.[27][28] Q claimed to be a high-level government official with Q clearance, who has access to classified information involving the Trump administration and its opponents in the United States.[29] NBC News reported that three people took the original Q post and shortly thereafter spread it across multiple media platforms to build an Internet following for profit. QAnon was preceded by several similar anonymous 4chan posters, such as FBIAnon, HLIAnon (High-Level Insider), CIAAnon, and WH Insider Anon.[30] Although American in origin, there is now a considerable QAnon movement outside of the United States, including in the United Kingdom and France since 2020,[31] with a "particularly strong and growing" movement in Germany and Japan.[32] Japanese QAnon adherents are also known as "JAnon" (Japanese: Jアノン).[33]

QAnon adherents began appearing at Trump reelection campaign rallies in August 2018.[34] Bill Mitchell, a broadcaster who has promoted QAnon, attended a White House "social media summit" in July 2019.[35][36] QAnon believers commonly tag their social media posts with the hashtag #WWG1WGA, signifying the motto "Where We Go One, We Go All", derived from the 1996 film White Squall.[37] At an August 2019 Trump rally, a man warming up the crowd used the QAnon motto, later denying that it was a QAnon reference. This occurred hours after the FBI published a report calling QAnon a potential source of domestic terrorism, the first time the agency had so rated a fringe conspiracy theory.[38][39] According to analysis by Media Matters for America, as of October 2020, Trump had amplified QAnon messaging at least 265 times by retweeting or mentioning 152 Twitter accounts affiliated with QAnon, sometimes multiple times a day.[40][41] QAnon followers came to refer to Trump as "Q+".[42]

 

[Uncensored2008]

Q been around since 2017. Not a big secret.

QAnon - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Although preceded by similar viral conspiracy theories such as Pizzagate,[22][23] which has since become part of QAnon, the conspiracy theory began with an October 2017 post on the anonymous imageboard website 4chan, by "Q" (or "QAnon"), who was presumably an American individual;[24] it is now possible that "Q" has become supported and or mirrored by group of people acting under the same name that have a connection to Trump.[25][26] A stylometric analysis of Q posts claims to have uncovered that at least two people wrote as "Q" in different periods.[27][28] Q claimed to be a high-level government official with Q clearance, who has access to classified information involving the Trump administration and its opponents in the United States.[29] NBC News reported that three people took the original Q post and shortly thereafter spread it across multiple media platforms to build an Internet following for profit. QAnon was preceded by several similar anonymous 4chan posters, such as FBIAnon, HLIAnon (High-Level Insider), CIAAnon, and WH Insider Anon.[30] Although American in origin, there is now a considerable QAnon movement outside of the United States, including in the United Kingdom and France since 2020,[31] with a "particularly strong and growing" movement in Germany and Japan.[32] Japanese QAnon adherents are also known as "JAnon" (Japanese: Jアノン).[33]

QAnon adherents began appearing at Trump reelection campaign rallies in August 2018.[34] Bill Mitchell, a broadcaster who has promoted QAnon, attended a White House "social media summit" in July 2019.[35][36] QAnon believers commonly tag their social media posts with the hashtag #WWG1WGA, signifying the motto "Where We Go One, We Go All", derived from the 1996 film White Squall.[37] At an August 2019 Trump rally, a man warming up the crowd used the QAnon motto, later denying that it was a QAnon reference. This occurred hours after the FBI published a report calling QAnon a potential source of domestic terrorism, the first time the agency had so rated a fringe conspiracy theory.[38][39] According to analysis by Media Matters for America, as of October 2020, Trump had amplified QAnon messaging at least 265 times by retweeting or mentioning 152 Twitter accounts affiliated with QAnon, sometimes multiple times a day.[40][41] QAnon followers came to refer to Trump as "Q+".[42]

Really Nazi?

Show any post by myself or any conservative on this board about QAnon prior to 2020?

You Nazis have been challenged dozens of times before, and none of you ever manage to come up with anything.

Q is a leftist invention to smear Trump, nothing more. Don't give a fuck what some Nazi wrote in Wiki.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Really Nazi?

Show any post by myself or any conservative on this board about QAnon prior to 2020?

You Nazis have been challenged dozens of times before, and none of you ever manage to come up with anything.

Q is a leftist invention to smear Trump, nothing more. Don't give a fuck what some Nazi wrote in Wiki.

Too funny!
Hey..your story and you're sticking to it, just don't expect anyone real to believe any of your nonsense.

Do you really think that some few posters on one site somehow must mention something for it to be real?

Anyway..you know damn well who and what Q is.

Q-bert.