“They would — as the president put it — ‘shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos,’” said the prosecutor, Jacob Harris Gutwillig, an assistant U.S. attorney in New York. nytimes.com/2021/03/09/wor…
Important case happening now that implicates the current Honduran president in major drug trafficking and predictably, the Honduran hall of mirrors has been tweeting a pro-JOH hashtag: YoCreoEnJOH (I believe in JOH). It was trending earlier today in Guatemala. 
I've mapped the networks of these hilariously fake Twitter accounts that boost President Hernandez several times over the past few years, here's one thread with some previous analysis & graphs:
https://twitter.com/3r1nG/status/1032093611729592320
This Sept 2020 report by @RMac18, @CraigSilverman & @PranavDixit about a data scientist who was fired from Facebook proved the same activity was happening on Facebook. The platform took almost a year to remove it.
buzzfeednews.com/article/craigs…
buzzfeednews.com/article/craigs…
Here was the July 2019 takedown: 181 Facebook accounts, over 1,000 FB Pages and more than $23,000 in Facebook ads paid for in US dollars and Honduran lempiras. about.fb.com/news/2019/07/r…
A blatant CIB network that reconstituted itself within 2 weeks and is no doubt still posting.
A blatant CIB network that reconstituted itself within 2 weeks and is no doubt still posting.
Honduran researchers and activists have been denouncing this shit for *years* but it's apparently not a priority, even though the obvious fakery was spreading positive PR for a narco kingpin. And buying Facebook ads!
https://twitter.com/3r1nG/status/1155320082207088640
I don't know how to make the platforms care about this.
https://twitter.com/3r1nG/status/1305876119745449984
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