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.