I did this years ago as an experiment. My character was Mongolian and wasn’t hard to amass the maximum “friends” - took 2-3 days I believe. Facebook had a control, probably still does, to limit the number of friend requests sent in a certain span of time. The penalty was short periods of suspension. After establishing my character in Mongolia I had them migrate to an American college and replaced all the Mongolians with Americans. Then deleted the account. Along with a political weaponization, these fake accounts can be used by brands for marketing or research, or by predators on social dating sites that require a “real life” Facebook account to register.
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