According to the social media firm, the troll farm – a coordinated effort to manipulate public discourse using fake accounts – was aimed at amplifying pro-government and anti-opposition content.
It had been active on its platforms since 2018 and was primarily operated by staff of Telcor, Nicaragua’s telecoms watchdog, working from the postal service headquarters in the capital Managua.
Facebook added that the Supreme Court, which has been an Ortega ally, and the Nicaraguan Social Security Institute also ran smaller clusters of fake accounts.
“This was one of the most cross-government troll operations we’ve disrupted to date, with multiple state entities taking part in this activity at once,” Facebook’s investigators said in their report on the matter.
Facebook said it had this year alone taken down other government-linked networks from Ethiopia, Uganda, Thailand and Azerbaijan for breaking its rules against so-called coordinated inauthentic behaviour...