"troll farm" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2021 March, Facebook March 2021 Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Report",
          "text": "These are some of the hallmarks of a so-called troll farm — a physical location where a collective of operators share computers and phones to jointly manage a pool of fake accounts as part of an influence operation.",
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          "ref": "2021 September 16, Karen Hao, “Troll farms reached 140 million Americans a month on Facebook before 2020 election, internal report shows”, in MIT Technology Review, retrieved 2021-09-17",
          "text": "Troll farms — professionalized groups that work in a coordinated fashion to post provocative content, often propaganda, to social networks— were still building massive audiences by running networks of Facebook pages.",
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          "ref": "2021 June 11, Julia Wong, “Revealed: rightwing firm posed as leftist group on Facebook to divide Democrats”, in The Guardian, retrieved 2021-09-26",
          "text": "Rally Forge ... established a domestic 'troll farm' in Phoenix, Arizona, that employed teenagers to churn out pro-Trump social media posts, some of which cast doubt on the integrity of the US election system or falsely charged Democrats with attempting to steal the election.",
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        "A group of Internet trolls organized in order to interfere in political opinions and decision-making."
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        "(Internet) A group of Internet trolls organized in order to interfere in political opinions and decision-making."
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        {
          "word": "troll army"
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          "word": "troll factory"
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          "ref": "2021 September 16, Karen Hao, “Troll farms reached 140 million Americans a month on Facebook before 2020 election, internal report shows”, in MIT Technology Review, retrieved 2021-09-17",
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        "(Internet) A group of Internet trolls organized in order to interfere in political opinions and decision-making."
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