On the eve of the 2020 election, troll farms were running vast page networks on Facebook, mainly targeting Christians, Black Americans, and Native Americans. A report obtained by MIT Technology Review ...

Facebook says that it now uses the same techniques as bot removal to combat human trolls and spammers. The company told Reuters that this new approach is similar to what its security team uses to shut ...

Facebook took down more than 1,000 fake accounts in March, including a few hundred that were tied to a troll farm in Albania. The company shared the takedowns as part of its monthly report on ...

The popular and widely used social media platform, Facebook finally cracked down and removed the massive troll accounts and pages that plagues the country of Azerbaijan that influences its public on ...

Update: After this story published, Facebook took down two of the five troll-farm pages we identified. In the run-up to the 2020 election, the most highly contested in US history, Facebook’s most ...

A SUPER sleuth TD tracked down an internet troll and told him off after he made comments about her weight on social media.

Facebook announced on Monday that it shut down a "troll farm" allegedly run by the government of Nicaragua and the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) party. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega ...

A bride-to-be posted her wedding dress in a “wedding shaming” Facebook group — just to see how people would judge it. TikToker @rnicolez bought her dream wedding dress. She wanted to gauge how her ...

Nov 1 (Reuters) - Facebook (FB.O), opens new tab said on Monday that last month it removed a troll farm with more than 1,000 Facebook and Instagram accounts which it was said was run by the Nicaraguan ...

is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered virtual and augmented reality, the history of computing, and more for The Verge since 2011. Facebook ...