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Re:Facebook reveals Russian troll content, shuts down 135 IR... by hbosch on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @07:37PM (#16750476)
Small # of accounts, but massive amounts of followers/viewers. Kylie Jenner has a "fairly small amount of accounts" (ie one) on Twitter, but a single tweet can send a company's stock into the red[0].

0. http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/22/technology/snapchat-update-k...

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Re:Facebook reveals Russian troll content, shuts down 135 IR... by dmix on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @09:03PM (#16750961)
Don't these 'troll' accounts mostly have fake followers though? What reach could 76 accounts with mostly fake followers/likes really have on the world?

They most certainly arent anywhere near Kylie Jenner level so Im not sure what that has to do with this.

But I guess no one involved (media, FB) wants this story to be any less newsworthy so I doubt we'll ever have an answer...

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Re:Facebook reveals Russian troll content, shuts down 135 IR... by gabept on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @09:01PM (#16750951)
Would you know of a single Russian account like that?
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