{"id":1771,"date":"2021-10-06T04:25:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T08:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2021\/10\/06\/facebook-troll-farms-play-outsized-role-in-madagascars-politics\/"},"modified":"2021-10-06T04:25:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T08:25:01","slug":"facebook-troll-farms-play-outsized-role-in-madagascars-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2021\/10\/06\/facebook-troll-farms-play-outsized-role-in-madagascars-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook &lsquo;troll farms&rsquo; play outsized role in Madagascar&rsquo;s politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In Madagascar, some of the country&rsquo;s highest authorities are accused of bankrolling teams to create fake profiles on Facebook which then share biased or false information\u00a0for political gain. These fake Facebook accounts stir up controversy, sing the praises of\u00a0President Andry Rajoelina and criticise\u00a0journalists and opposition\u00a0politicians. The communications minister, accused of playing a key role,\u00a0denies any wrongdoing. Our correspondents report.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Madagascar, some of the country&rsquo;s highest authorities are accused of bankrolling teams to create fake profiles on Facebook which then share biased or false information\u00a0for political gain. These fake Facebook accounts stir up controversy, sing the praises of\u00a0President Andry Rajoelina and criticise\u00a0journalists and opposition\u00a0politicians. The communications minister, accused of playing a key role,\u00a0denies any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,3],"class_list":["post-1771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afriqueune","tag-africa","tag-afrique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}