Inside a Facebook bot farm that pumps out 200k+ political posts per month

The bot farm we found was used to create and manage 13,775 unique Facebook accounts. They each posted 15 times per month on average, for a total of 206,625 posts from this one farm in a given month. Note that new bots are being created by bot farms and being taken down by Facebook’s moderation systems all the time, so the total figures could vary quite a bit month-to-month. The earliest post from these accounts was created in October 2020. Researchers say Facebook only blocked about one in 10 of the farm’s bot accounts as of time of publishing.