Timeline shows social media coordination
CNN has found EBLA workers created fake social media accounts in bursts, since the group registered in June 2019. Activity stopped suddenly in February 2020 after a raid, and Twitter later suspended accounts on its platform.
EBLA account created
EBLA account suspended
Jul 2019
Aug 2019
Sep 2019
Oct 2019
Nov 2019
Dec 2019
Jan 2020
Feb 6, 2020: Ghanaian National Security raid the EBLA office. All Ghana troll accounts stop posting.
Feb 2020
Feb 26, 2020: Twitter suspends all accounts associated with EBLA office in Ghana.
Mar 2020
March 5, 2020: Seth Wiredu gathers Ghana employees and tells them to open new accounts.
March 12, 2020: Facebook removes 49 accounts, 69 pages and 85 Instagram accounts associated with the troll farm. Twitter removes 72 EBLA accounts.
EBLA account created
EBLA account suspended
Jul 2019
Aug 2019
Sep 2019
Oct 2019
Nov 2019
Dec 2019
Jan 2020
Feb 6, 2020: Ghanaian National Security raid the EBLA office. All Ghana troll accounts stop posting.
Feb 2020
Feb 26, 2020: Twitter suspends all accounts associated with EBLA office in Ghana.
Mar 2020
March 5, 2020: Seth Wiredu gathers Ghana employees and tells them to open new accounts.
March 12, 2020: Facebook removes 49 accounts, 69 pages and 85 Instagram accounts associated with the troll farm. Twitter removes 72 EBLA accounts.
EBLA account created
EBLA account suspended
Jul 2019
Aug 2019
Sep 2019
Oct 2019
Nov 2019
Dec 2019
Jan 2020
Feb 2020
Mar 2020
Feb 6, 2020: Ghanaian National Security raid the EBLA office. All Ghana troll accounts stop posting.
March 12, 2020: Facebook removes 49 accounts, 69 pages and 85 Instagram accounts associated with the troll farm. Twitter removes 72 EBLA accounts.
Feb 26, 2020: Twitter suspends all accounts associated with EBLA office in Ghana.
March 5, 2020: Seth Wiredu gathers Ghana employees and tells them to open new accounts.
