Exclusive: Facebook Groups Removed for Trump Train, Candace Owens, and Ivanka Trump Three pro-Trump Facebook Groups with more than 1.6 million total members all disappeared in September 2020. JORDAN LILES PUBLISHED 25 SEPTEMBER 2020 Ex.
With only a little over a month to go until the U.S. presidential election, Facebook appeared to have quietly removed three political fan groups that supported President Donald Trump’s reelection efforts.
The three private groups were Trump Train 2020, Red Wave, Candace Owens, and Ivanka Trump (Official). They had a combined total of over 1.6 million members and promoted pro- Trump political content. They appeared to have been removed sometime during or around the weekend of Sept. 18-20, possibly after having tripped automated signals that Facebook employs to detect behavior that is against its policies regarding coordinated inauthentic behavior.
We asked Facebook for comment on the three groups but did not receive a response.
In a past and unrelated takedown of four other similar networks, Facebook cited coordinated inauthentic behavior for the removal. The company said that it took the action because it found the networks used “fake accounts as a central part of their operations to mislead people about who they are and what they are doing.” All three groups described below in our reporting appeared to fall into this same category of offense, with admin slots filled by fake or duplicate accounts for the same people.
All of this follows our previous reporting detailing Facebook’s removal of a group themed for White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany. The group was managed from Macedonia, and its actions violated the platform’s policies.
Trump Train 2020, Red Wave The largest of the three Facebook Groups that Snopes reporters noticed had been removed was Trump Train 2020, Red Wave, which amassed nearly 1.1 million members in just over three months. It is not uncommon to see these kinds of political Facebook Pages and Groups gain somewhat large followings relatively quickly. However, an average growth of 366,000 members per month for an unofficial political Facebook Group is not the norm.
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