Thread by @JuddLegum

UPDATE: 8 hours after popular.info's report, Facebook has taken down the Ukrainian "I Love America" page & every other page identified in the piece

This was a huge network pushing pro-Trump propaganda with greater reach than the NYT & WashPost popular.info/p/massive-i-lo…

Facebook is a $500 billion company. But they are not holding themselves accountable.

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Just heard back from Facebook: "We are removing these Pages for violating our policies against spam and fake accounts, and are continuing to investigate for any further violations."

Last night, Facebook told me the pages did not violate its policy on on coordinated inauthentic behavior and there was no policy against posting memes.

But there was a huge reaction to this piece today. My original thread has 13K retweets and it was #2 on Reddit's front page

The scale of these companies is extraordinary and their impact on politics is frightening.

But FACTS and an INFORMED PUBLIC can still make a difference.

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