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Facebook knew of Pelosi fake video 13 minutes after it was posted & instead of labeling it FAKE or pulling it down, a FB official called Daily Beast.
Fake news video where even a hastily produced, low-budget fraud can fool millions if Facebook does nothing
thedailybeast.com/we-found-shawn…
Fake news video where even a hastily produced, low-budget fraud can fool millions if Facebook does nothing
thedailybeast.com/we-found-shawn…
May 22, 2019 Facebook knew about fake video and didn't stop the
60K shares Fake video on Facebook which was picked up by millions
Shawn Brooks created and posted on AllNews24/7
“As the 2020 election draws closer there’s an urgent lesson in the Pelosi video hoax..."
60K shares Fake video on Facebook which was picked up by millions
Shawn Brooks created and posted on AllNews24/7
“As the 2020 election draws closer there’s an urgent lesson in the Pelosi video hoax..."
Shawn Brooks created the fake Pelosi drunk video on Facebook.
The Daily Beast started looking for Brooks last week after noticing a donation link at the bottom of AllNews 24/7’s “about” page that had “ShawnBrooks32” plainly coded in the URL.
The Daily Beast started looking for Brooks last week after noticing a donation link at the bottom of AllNews 24/7’s “about” page that had “ShawnBrooks32” plainly coded in the URL.
Brooks personally outed his connection to Politics Watchdog in a May 24 tweet first noticed by Manic News. In it, Brooks responds to PolitFact’s pants-on-fire debunking of the video hoax, which singled out Politics WatchDog. 
The woman, who asked not be named in this story, said she never had much interest in Brooks’ Facebook activities, but knew he was passionate about politics. “He’s deeply into politics,” she said. “That drew me into him more because he's smart on politics.”
His other obsession, she added, was spycraft. “He has this thing with being a secret agent and working for the government,” she said. “He always said, ‘Oh I want to be a secret agent.’”
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