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The biggest Black Lives Matter page on Facebook is fake
From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 20:20:07 -0400
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From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com> Date: April 9, 2018 at 6:28:51 PM EDT To: nnsquad () nnsquad org Subject: [ NNSquad ] The biggest Black Lives Matter page on Facebook is fake The biggest Black Lives Matter page on Facebook is fake http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/09/technology/fake-black-lives-matter-facebook-page/index.html The page, titled simply "Black Lives Matter," had almost 700,000 followers on Facebook, more than twice as many as the official Black Lives Matter page. It was tied to online fundraisers that brought in at least $100,000 that supposedly went to Black Lives Matter causes in the U.S. At least some of the money, however, was transferred to Australian bank accounts, CNN has learned. Fundraising campaigns associated with the Facebook page were suspended by PayPal and Patreon after CNN contacted each of the companies for comment. Donorbox and Classy had already removed the campaigns. The discovery raises new questions about the integrity of Facebook's platform and the content hosted there.
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