Caught: Trump Paying Teens for Fake Profiles on Facebook, his ‘Army of Support’

Social network says accounts tied to Turning Point USA sought to influence conversations by flooding news articles with comments

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Facebook has removed hundreds of fake profiles it has linked to the conservative group Turning Point USA for carrying out organized attacks on the site, including attempts to influence public conversations by flooding news articles with pro-Trump comments and misinformation.

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The move was prompted by reports last month in the Washington Post that found Turning Point Action, an affiliated pro-Trump group, was paying teenagers to post coordinated messages on the site, a violation of Facebook’s rules.

In comments on news articles, paid users cast doubt on mail-in ballots praised Trump and spread misinformation about coronavirus. Facebook traced these profiles to an Arizona-based communications company called Rally Forge, which it says worked on behalf of Turning Point USA.



In comments on news articles, paid users cast doubt on mail-in ballots, praised Trump, and spread misinformation about coronavirus. Facebook traced these profiles to an Arizona-based communications company called Rally Forge, which it says worked on behalf of Turning Point USA.

Comments by the accounts addressed topics such as “Covid-19, criticism of the Democratic party and presidential candidate Joe Biden, and praise of President Trump and the Republican party”, Facebook said, adding that the efforts violated the platform’s policy against “coordinated inauthentic behavior”.

These fake profiles commented most frequently on pages of the Washington Post, Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, and the New York Times, the report from Facebook said. The networks initially became active before the 2018 midterm elections and went dormant until June.

Individuals behind the accounts used stock photos to create fake profiles, many of which were removed by Facebook’s automated detection software and linked to Rally Forge.

Source: theguardian.com

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2 COMMENTS

  1. Like President DramaQueenDon himself; tweeting (trolling) 100’s of times in a day: hard to do!

    Same in the debate; spewing inflammatory, irrelevance.

    “We elected the first internet troll President.”
    – Dave Chappelle, Jan 2017.

  2. “Social network says accounts tied to Turning Point USA sought to influence conversations by flooding news articles with comments”.
    Think they learned that from the paid army of Hasbara trolls working from Tel Aviv.

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