A lot of investor-relations style astroturfing began in the lead-up to the 2016 election. We did some threat tracking for certain organizations as a result of

A lot of investor-relations style astroturfing began in the lead-up to the 2016 election. We did some threat tracking for certain organizations as a result of the growing extreme rhetoric in some of these communities and with social media aggregation tools it became very clear that there are a lot of paid political shill accounts. Facebook's toxic communities are far more grass-roots in comparison. They're also, at least in the cases of the files I was on, a lot more violent, and a lot more volatile. Surveiled Facebook groups looked a lot more like Parler than brigaded reddit subs.