The biggest Black Lives Matter page on Facebook is fake

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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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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