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Judd Legum
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1. A massive Facebook Page called "I Love America" — which has 1.1 million followers — is actually run by Ukrainians

Recently, the page has started pushing caustic pro-Trump propaganda

It's the tip of the iceberg

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2. The Ukrainian "I Love America" page is repurposing memes used by the Internet Research Agency, the Russian group highlighted in the Mueller report that interfered in the 2016 election

The big difference is this operation is MUCH BIGGER

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3. "I Love America" is part of a complex network of Ukrainian-run Facebook pages that seek to amass large audiences and then funnel them to rabidly pro-Trump pages.

These include pages featuring cute dogs and Jesus

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4. The reach of this Ukrainian network of Facebook pages is absolutely extraordinary.

Over the last 90 days, just the major pages in this network has as much reach on Facebook than the New York Times and Washington Post COMBINED

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5. Facebook tells me this network of Ukrainians pretending to be American, pushing pro-Trump propaganda DOESN'T VIOLATE ITS POLICIES

The company won't hold itself accountable.

That's why I'm doing this work.

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6. Ukrainian pages like "I Love America" and "Cute or Not?" and "I Love Jesus Forever" are now cross-posting content from Ukrainian pages like "Click Like, if you love Donald Trump as much as we do" and "God bless Donald Trump and God bless America"

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7. The content on these more explicitly pro-Trump pages is incendiary and frequently false.

For example one of the pages includes a meme stating Hillary Clinton sold access to her server to foreign governments

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UPDATE: 8 hours after this report was published, Facebook took "I Love America" and all the other pages in this piece down.

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AUDIO OF TRUMP THREATENING BOTH THE WHISTLE-BLOWER AND EVERYONE WHO TALKED TO THE WHISTLE-BLOWER

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This audio, standing-alone, is more than enough to justify impeachment.

It's witness tampering, among other things.
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Judd Legum
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I think its irresponsible for the NYT to be publishing details about the whistle-blower that could help the White House identify them

The president just not-so-subtlety threatened the life of this person and anyone they talked to
It doesn't advance the story at all. It was clearly someone knowledgeable about the region who was in contact with people at the White House

Putting this person in danger by listing the agency they work for and how they might have gotten the info is a poor decision
This makes no sense. It was already possible to compare the whistle-blower's report with the summary released by the White House. And the whistle-blower names witnesses who could verify other aspects of the report.
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How this plays out:

1. Trump will be impeached by the House. After this whistle-blower report, it will probably happen sooner rather than later

2. No Republican currently supports impeachment or removal

3. Republicans now have to decide if they are a political party or a cult
McConnell would probably prefer to just sit on the articles of impeachment and spare his members from a tough vote.

But Trump, of course, will want the Senate to "vindicate" him by voting against the articles of impeachment
Like most things in politics, nothing will change until everything does.

Republicans appeared willing to overlook the call summary released yesterday, which was very very bad

But the whistle-blower complaint is worse.

Is there any line?

We'll now get to see
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