Facebook says it shut down Nicaraguan government-run troll farm
Al JazeeraThe social media company says network aimed to amplify pro-government and anti-opposition content. Facebook Inc has said it shut down a “troll farm” run by the Nicaraguan government that had been spreading anti-opposition messages across multiple accounts, a move that comes just days before presidential elections are set to be held in the Central American nation. The social media giant said on Monday that the troll farm – a coordinated effort to manipulate public discourse using fake accounts – was intended to amplify pro-government and anti-opposition content. The accounts were operated by the government of President Daniel Ortega and the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front party, said Ben Nimmo, threat intelligence lead for Facebook’s parent company Meta. “This was really a cross-government operation, the troll farm consisted of several clusters which were run from multiple … government entities at once,” Nimmo told the AFP news agency.
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