troll farm

troll farm (plural troll farms)

1. (Internet) A group of Internet trolls organized in order to interfere in political opinions and decision-making.

   Synonyms: troll army, troll factory

   • 2021 March, Facebook March 2021 Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Report‎:

     These are some of the hallmarks of a so-called troll farm — a physical location where a collective of operators share computers and phones to jointly manage a pool of fake accounts as part of an influence operation.

   • 2021 September 16, Karen Hao, “Troll farms reached 140 million Americans a month on Facebook before 2020 election, internal report shows”, in MIT Technology Review‎, retrieved September 17, 2021:

     Troll farms — professionalized groups that work in a coordinated fashion to post provocative content, often propaganda, to social networks— were still building massive audiences by running networks of Facebook pages.

   • 2021 June 11, Julia Wong, “Revealed: rightwing firm posed as leftist group on Facebook to divide Democrats”, in The Guardian‎, retrieved September 26, 2021:

     Rally Forge ... established a domestic 'troll farm' in Phoenix, Arizona, that employed teenagers to churn out pro-Trump social media posts, some of which cast doubt on the integrity of the US election system or falsely charged Democrats with attempting to steal the election.