Yes, it was a advertising company. Beside creating false rumours for PR objectives, another use of the accounts was try to reach 5000 people in them (I dunno n

Yes, it was a advertising company. Beside creating false rumours for PR objectives, another use of the accounts was try to reach 5000 people in them (I dunno now, but when she was my GF facebook converted people accounts with 5000 friends into pages with 5000 followers, then ad companies could sell those to kickstart company pages).