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Facebook Removes Hundreds of Accounts Spamming Political Info (theverge.com)
Facebook is purging hundreds of accounts and pages in the U.S., many of which spread political misinformation, for breaking the company's terms against "inauthentic" content and spam. The Verge reports: The company said in a blog post that 559 pages and 251 accounts would be removed. While the accounts used "sensational political content," Facebook did not say that was the reason for the purge. Instead, the accounts and pages will be taken down after they had "consistently broken" the company's rules against gaming its platform. Facebook noted that many used strategies like posting on fake or multiple accounts to generate traffic, or to inflate their popularity. Still, Facebook noted the proximity to the U.S. midterm elections, and said that networks like the ones it removed today are "increasingly" promoting political content that is "often indistinguishable from legitimate political debate." The company said this was the reason it has turned to "behavior" instead of "content" when searching for bad actors.
democrats aren't generally dumb enough to fall for FB spambot trolls, which is why you don't really see any.
Actually, the reason Democrats don't troll is that, thanks to Poe's Law, they don't need to. Actual authentic right-wing posts already go far beyond any trolling or parody that the Democrats could come up with.
They think the Brett Kavanaugh hearings helped them, but polls are showing the opposite
Lately Democrat partisans have been taking an odd approach to politics: screaming incoherent profanity and flailing their arms wildly. That approach works great if your goal is to be a deranged crackhead living in the public park. It is, however, rather less effective at getting people to vote you into office.