Africa Business Radio

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.The social media giant says that the troll farm was intended to amplify pro-government and anti-opposition content.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.He says the company closed 937 accounts, 140 pages and 24 groups on Facebook, as well as 363 Instagram accounts, last month.