How autocratic governments use Facebook against their own citizens

Last month, Facebook discovered evidence of a coordinated influence campaign on its platform led by groups in Iran. On Tuesday, a pair of investigations cast new light on other ways that autocratic governments are using Facebook to terrible ends: creating brigades of influencers and paid troll armies to suppress dissent and deny the reality of human-rights atrocities within their own countries.
In The New York Times, Declan Walsh and Suliman Ali Zway examine how the “keyboard warriors&rdq