Facebook Says It Shut Down Nicaraguan Government-Run Troll Farm

Facebook Inc says it shut down a troll farm run by the Nicaraguan government that had been spreading anti-opposition messages across multiple accounts, a move that comes just days before presidential elections are set to be held in the Central American nation.<br />The social media giant says that the troll farm was intended to amplify pro-government and anti-opposition content.<br />Threat intelligence lead for Facebook’s parent company Meta, Ben Nimmo says this was really a cross-government operation; the troll farm consisted of several clusters which were run from multiple government entities at once.<br />He says the company closed 937 accounts, 140 pages and 24 groups on Facebook, as well as 363 Instagram accounts, last month.