Though The BL maintains a New York business address and its editorial staff includes several U.S.-based employees, the outlet as a whole is literally the English-language edition of Epoch Times Vietnam, and much of The BL’s inauthentic behavior appears to originate in Vietnam. Facebook’s inability to detect and counter malicious foreign actors, like the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA) or the “Macedonian teens” who profited from fake pro-Trump news, was a central failing of Facebook in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, according to several intelligence agencies. Facebook maintains they take this kind of threat seriously as their platform prepares for future elections. https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/12/13/facebook-bl-cib/