Thread by @oneunderscore__, NEW: Facebook removes troll farm posing as African-American support for Donald Trump, [...]

Facebook also removed hundreds of fake accounts linked to conservative media outlet The Epoch Times.

The accounts posing as pro-Trump African-Americans and QAnon believers were part of a network based in Romania.

Motivations are unclear, but it could be a cutout for a different country's info warfare campaign. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-removes-troll-farm-posing-african-american-support-donald-trump-n1236056

Facebook also removed hundreds of fake accounts linked to conservative media outlet The Epoch Times.

Facebook took down ANOTHER network of fake accounts tied to The Epoch Times and its parent company.

They had racked up 2 million followers with COVID conspiracies, protest conspiracies, and pro-Trump culture war stuff like this:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-removes-troll-farm-posing-african-american-support-donald-trump-n1236056

Here are some posts from the newly discovered Romanian pro-Trump troll farm.

Account names like "BlackPeopleVoteForTrump" and "WeLoveOurPresident."

Note that advanced ops now outsource their troll farms to places like Romania, Vietnam, Macedonia, etc.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-removes-troll-farm-posing-african-american-support-donald-trump-n1236056

Some more interesting stuff about this fake pro-Trump account that was run by a Romanian troll farm. https://twitter.com/SlickRockWeb/status/1291440252910002177

https://twitter.com/SlickRockWeb/status/1291440252910002177

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