Juan Orlando Hernández falsely inflated his posts’ popularity for nearly a year after the company was informed about it
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 – the digital equivalent of a bussed-in crowd – 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.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/13/facebook-honduras-juan-orlando-hernandez-fake-engagement
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The Article Was Written/Published By: Julia Carrie Wong in San Francisco and Jeff Ernst
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