Facebook knew of Honduran president's manipulation campaign – and let it continue for 11 months | Technology
Last modified on Thu 15 Apr 2021 06.00 EDT Facebook allowed the president of Honduras to artificially inflate the appearance of popularity on his posts for nearly a year after the company was first alerted to the activity. The astroturfing â the digital equivalent of a bussed-in crowd â was just one facet of a broader online disinformation effort that the administration has used to attack critics and undermine social movements, Honduran activists and scholars say. Facebook posts by Juan Orlando Hernández, an authoritarian rightwinger whose 2017 re-election is widely viewed as fra...
Source: theguardian.com