Facebook bans troll farm running fake pro-Trump accounts like ‘BlackPeopleVoteForTrump’

Here come the fake social media accounts trying to sway the 2020 U.S. election. A foreign troll farm masquerading as African-American supporters of President Donald Trump was kicked off Facebook on Thursday. The troll farm, which has been traced back to Romania, was linked to hundreds of pro-Trump accounts, according to NBC News. Examples of the deleted accounts include Facebook's "We Love Our President" page and the Instagram account  “BlackPeopleVoteForTrump." According to Facebook, the accounts were removed based on “behavior, not content.” This means that the troll farm ran afoul of the social media giant’s rules on coordinated inauthentic behavior. These rules forbid users from doing things such as setting up fake accounts in order to game Facebook’s algorithm to promote their content. Read more...More about Facebook, Donald Trump, Misinformation, 2020 Election, and Tech