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I am from Honduras and saw the news when they said they deleted hundreds of accounts linked to Juan Orlando Hernandez.

The manipulation the Nacionalista party did in social media was even more blatant than you think. There was this guy who was really active in the biggest political FB group in the country and never shied away of linking the multiple pages he was administrator to that were Pro-Hernandez.

I constantly saw, and keep seeing, political ads in Facebook smearing the opposition with lies.

I don’t know which is the real reason: has Facebook gotten so damn big that they lack the tools to properly moderate their content? Or is it just greed? I believe in the later, greed has always been a driving force behind the woes of the world.

What is stopping Facebook of simply adding a measurement visible in all pages that show a % of account age? It might not be 100% effective, but if I see a new page with 90% accounts being less than a year or 2 old I would be suspicious of it and would not follow it.

Thank you for responding. I just felt the need to tell you that we appreciate what you did.

About your opinion in the account age proposal, I understand your point and you are definitely right. Following this, my grandmother’s Facebook account she did a bit over a year ago would be labeled as a bot because she just uses it to see photos of our family around the globe. She hasn’t even posted anything as of now.

And I guess things are getting harder, what with AI generated human face pictures, any account can have a false picture of an AI human making it more credible and harder to snuff out.

Anyway, thank you for doing this again.